Evan Osnos Quotes

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

Evan Osnos

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• I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Romantic

• What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Art
  • Future

• Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • America
  • Man

• I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • God
  • Daily
  • Strength

• The words of the world want to make sentences.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Want
  • Words

• When dealing with HBO, you actually are dealing with real filmmakers.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Real
  • You
  • Dealing

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• What does God want me to do with the resources, time, and talents He has given me?

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Time
  • God

• The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • World
  • Community
  • Peace

• Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • May
  • Nature
  • Mood

• If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Man

• I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Broken
  • Brave
  • Darling

• Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.

  

  Vivica A. Fox
  • Mean
  • Needs
  • Persons

• Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

  

  Euripides
  • Heart
  • Judgment
  • Rightness

• Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Opposition
  • Enthusiast
  • Converts

• The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Reality
  • Opposition
  • Imaginary

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

  

  Aime Martin
  • Reflection
  • Movements
  • Kills

• I am sure care's an enemy to life.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Care
  • Enemy

• To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Harmony
  • Opposition
  • Conformity