David Conyers Quotes

'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.

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• I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Good
  • Learning

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Animals

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Ego
  • Personal

• Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Live
  • Science

• I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Up
  • Me
  • College

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Job
  • Help
  • Man

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Women
  • Used
  • Mere

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • War
  • Understand

• Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Help
  • Player

• I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

  

  Joshua Ferris
  • World
  • Effort
  • Meaning

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• When I was living in Boston, I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

  

  Win Butler
  • College

• Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great. But we do need to make America whole again. Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • America

• 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.

  

  David Conyers
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