David Weinberger Quotes

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Wisdom
  • Moral
  • Practical

• The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Together
  • Way
  • Stars

• I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wife

• There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Like

• I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thought

• It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Strong

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Son
  • Island

• An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Insurance
  • Accomplishment

• I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Always
  • Find
  • Strange

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • War
  • Popular
  • See

• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  

  Kajol
  • Men
  • Everything
  • Turn

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• If you haven't heard my story, my mom is full Korean, and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian, and when you're that age, you don't know really how to process that; the way you take that is, 'Who I am isn't good enough.'

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Up

• From Castuccio

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Giving
  • Passion

• If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Home
  • Order
  • Excuse

• History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

  

  David Weinberger
  • Important
  • History