Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

Elizabeth Janeway

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• 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Game
  • Simply
  • Odyssey

• Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Language

• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Support
  • Government

• Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Men And Women

• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Important
  • Question
  • Study

• Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Great
  • Player
  • Speak

• I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • You
  • Like
  • Move

• When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

  

  Idries Shah
  • Why
  • Door
  • Fortune

• We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Reach
  • Higher
  • Constantly

• I am the odd man out in the family.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Men
  • Family
  • Odd

• God made the integers, man made the rest.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • God
  • Rest
  • Made

• Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Up
  • Food
  • Theorist

• I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Decision
  • Motivational

• If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Ifs
  • Dinner
  • Please

• There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Financial
  • Crisis
  • Banks

• I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Wish
  • Identity

• The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.

  

  Elisabet Sahtouris
  • Humanity
  • Economy
  • Civilization

• The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there is a sort of a condescension in our dialogue with other societies, which was especially painful in several administrations to Russia. I think in Russia, the Yeltsin period is not considered a period of great achievement, but a period of corruption and humiliation.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Mistake
  • People
  • Russia

• “Schizophrenia is a cruel disease. The lives of those affected are often chronicles of constricted experiences, muted emotions, missed opportunities, unfulfilled expectations. It leads to a twilight existence, a twentieth century underground man. The fate of these patients has been worsened by our propensity to misunderstand, our failure to provide adequate treatment and rehabilitation, our meager research efforts. A disease which should be found, in the phrase of T.S. Eliot, in the "frigid purgatorial fires" has become through our ignorance and neglect a living hell.”

  

  E. Fuller Torrey
  • Hell
  • Patients
  • Schizophrenia

• We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Crisis