J. G. Ballard Quotes
Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
J. G. Ballard
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
Jack Keane
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
Rahul Gandhi
No one remembers who came in second.
Walter Hagen
Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
Vince Lombardi
I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
Sai Baba
In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
Carla Bruni
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
Daniel Bruhl
The officials want China to be seen as a cultured, creative nation, but in this anti-liberal political society everything outside the direct control of the state is seen as a potential threat.
Ai Weiwei
I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.
Jim Crace
Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
J. G. Ballard
