Max Eastman Quotes

It was natural that idealistic people who had ceased to believe in heaven should think up some bright hope for humanity on earth. That, I think, more than any objection to 'capitalism', accounts for the spread of the socialist dream, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries.

Max Eastman

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• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • You
  • Air
  • Matter

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Choice
  • Grace

• There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Perfect

• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• Man knows so much and does so little.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Man
  • Intelligence
  • Little

• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Best
  • Moment

• At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • First
  • Step
  • Brand

• In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Meal

• I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • God
  • Food
  • Never

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • She
  • Want
  • Ideas

• Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Blood

• New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Work
  • Real

• It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • True
  • Fun
  • Lies

• Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

  

  Cornelia Funke
  • She
  • Inspired
  • Author

• I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Help
  • Loved

• It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit.

  

  Theresa May
  • Hope
  • Leadership
  • Candidates

• It was natural that idealistic people who had ceased to believe in heaven should think up some bright hope for humanity on earth. That, I think, more than any objection to 'capitalism', accounts for the spread of the socialist dream, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries.

  

  Max Eastman
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe