John Dos Passos Quotes

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

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• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Trade
  • Contract
  • Lens

• But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Wealth
  • Research

• Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Couple
  • Court

• I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Support
  • Vote

• Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Physical

• I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Love
  • History
  • Career

• I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Lucky

• There is always safety in valor.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Always
  • Safety
  • Valor

• I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Manager
  • Club
  • Often

• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Trust

• Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Violence
  • After
  • Ended

• Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Me

• I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Music
  • Gentle
  • Gorgeous

• We had 45 lakh cases pending from 2003–2004, to which 65 lakh new cases were added, making it more than one crore pending cases. After our initiatives, there are only 20 lakh pending court cases. Now my target is that by 2010, when Gujarat will complete 50 years, we will make it no-pendency. Cases will be disposed of in the very year they are filed.

  

  Narendra Modi

• It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Future

• I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • American
  • Strong
  • English

• In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Impossible
  • State

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Financial
  • Crime

• Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

  

  John Dos Passos