Daniel Bell Quotes

Where religions fail, cults appear.

Daniel Bell

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• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Doing

• In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • World
  • Live
  • Rise

• I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Style
  • Woman

• The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • History
  • Sick

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Bad
  • Change

• Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Force

• I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

  

  Barbara Park
  • World
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Different
  • Think
  • Career

• It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Night

• The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Limits

• When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done

• I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Time
  • War
  • Silly

• Stop beatin round the bush,Let's get it on.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Stop

• When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • Up
  • Long
  • Power

• What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Nous nous croyons purs tant que nous méprisons ce que nous ne désirons pas.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

  

  James Buchan
  • Financial
  • Sky
  • Fireworks

• My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Ideas

• I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • People
  • School
  • Done

• Who are a little wise, the best fools be.

  

  John Donne
  • Wise

• Where religions fail, cults appear.

  

  Daniel Bell