R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• I have been surfing since I was six years old.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Years
  • Old
  • Surfing

• For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Men
  • You
  • Serving

• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Being

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Earth
  • You
  • Know

• Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Respect

• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Want
  • Black

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Woman

• I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Mysterious

• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • Earth

• I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Guy

• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Think
  • Car
  • Couple

• If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Family
  • Want
  • Poetry

• The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win - you pass the test.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Rest

• For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Years