Isaac Asimov Quotes

He is energetic only in evading responsibility.

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• I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Sometimes
  • Goals
  • Rapping

• I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Kind
  • Stress
  • Gym

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Realize

• I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Want
  • Earth

• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Great
  • War
  • Progressive

• In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Beginning

• The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Past
  • Never

• Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Name
  • Catholic

• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • New
  • New York
  • Starting

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • World
  • Story
  • Development

• If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Respect

• It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • Integrity
  • Clarity

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Change
  • Try
  • Changing

• With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues on that or the legal memos that subsequently came out until the summer, sometime in 2004, when there started to be news reports on that.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
  • Respect
  • Summer

• Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • People
  • Business
  • Opportunity

• We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Village
  • Complaints
  • Summer Place

• Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Future
  • Responsibility
  • Present

• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Work
  • Future

• He is energetic only in evading responsibility.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Responsibility