Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

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• As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Feeling
  • Relationship
  • Management

• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Trying
  • Write
  • Books

• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Children

• The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Work
  • Say
  • Majority

• The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Trying
  • Party
  • Independent

• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Spirit
  • Vote
  • Suffrage

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • You
  • Chance
  • Overcome

• Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Done
  • Art
  • Want

• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.

  

  Benny Hinn
  • Heaven
  • Gold

• If you look at the offense like a fancy car, the offensive line is the engine. Even though we might have nice spinners and nice rims and tinted windows and some neat paint job, it doesn't mean crap without the engine. If the engine's not working, the car might look like a pretty nice car, but it's a piece of crap.

  

  Mike Tice
  • Window
  • Offense
  • Engines

• The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Reason
  • Philosophy
  • Blind

• And all Niki really has to do now is coast

  

  Murray Walker
  • Coast

• The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Wisdom
  • Authority
  • Represented