Derek Bok Quotes

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Change
  • Progress
  • Human

• I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Done
  • Want
  • Star

• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Energy
  • Source
  • U.S.

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Gay
  • Red
  • Living

• I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Comedy
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Know
  • Singing

• Love is always being given where it is not required.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Always
  • Given

• I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis, who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes, one day will look around and say, 'Hey, this country is going nowhere.'

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Country
  • Day

• Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fear
  • Brave
  • Finding

• Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • History
  • Internet
  • Public

• Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.

  

  Sallust

• The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. … One of the great strengths of our political system always has been our tendency to keep religious issues in the background. By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • World
  • Great
  • Political

• Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Universe

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God
  • Believe
  • Patience

• Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Walking
  • Shadow
  • Disappointment

• I guess NBC must have noticed that one of my main staples is social media. So, when they approached me for 'The Voice,' I thought, 'Why not be the first one to do it?'

  

  Christine Flores
  • Why

• We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.'

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Picture
  • Fly

• It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Live
  • Morning

• I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Work

• People have different relationships with power. I suppose a large portion of the 'Homeland' audience aligns with the U.S., sort of against the enemies. We certainly have the CIA viewpoint on the world - and it's their job.

  

  Martin Donovan
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

  

  Derek Bok