Delmore Schwartz Quotes

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

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• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Decisions

• I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Quality
  • Best
  • Modesty

• In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationships

• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Want

• History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • History
  • Mask

• I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Artist

• There's depth in my comedy.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Comedy
  • Depth

• I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Tea
  • Structure
  • Addict

• When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Me

• People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Science
  • Win

• Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Me
  • Calling
  • Disrespectful

• Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Passion

• Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.

  

  Anthony Caro
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Moving

• Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

  

  Bruce Randall Hornsby Ambrosia
  • Trying
  • Decision
  • Sometimes

• They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Faith
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Space
  • Band
  • Familiarity

• I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

  

  Delmore Schwartz