N. Scott Momaday Quotes
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.N. Scott Momaday
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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
Larry Craig -
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
Sam Harris -
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
Adam Hochschild -
One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
Samuel L. Jackson -
My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
Ozwald Boateng -
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
Aaron Allston -
Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!
Said Nursi -
One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Lars von Trier
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
Kailash Satyarthi -
In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
Rabih Alameddine -
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh -
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
Tadashi Yanai -
The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity...
George Bernard Shaw -
You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.
Richard Morris -
There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.
E. F. Benson -
I draw a younger crowd who can relate to me. Some of the girl fans will message me online, saying, 'You're the reason I watch golf.'
Rickie Fowler -
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
Baz Luhrmann -
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
N. Scott Momaday