David Korten Quotes

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

David Korten

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• My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Home
  • Happy

• Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Space
  • Violence
  • Architecture

• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Write

• I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • You
  • President

• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Value
  • Happiness

• Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Great
  • Men
  • Age

• I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Parents
  • Eat
  • Chubby

• Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Character
  • City
  • Delhi

• I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Weird
  • Find
  • Princess

• You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • See
  • Look

• I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Fun
  • Drama
  • Club

• Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Want
  • Winter
  • Fast

• My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Dope

• Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Relationship
  • Violence

• Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • People
  • Character
  • American

• To do stories that I love, scripts that I love, and work with people who are passionate about them and passionate about projects - whether that's on stage or television or film, that's the kind of environment I want to work in.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • People
  • Work
  • Environment

• Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Good
  • Want
  • Victory

• Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water.

  

  Dara Torres
  • Sports
  • Spring
  • Block

• If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

  

  Ben Nelson

• There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

  

  David Korten