Herbert Spencer Quotes

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

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• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Art
  • Nature

• If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Die

• I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Search

• I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Never
  • Him
  • Even

• I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • God
  • Believe
  • End

• I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • I Can

• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Follow

• If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Sound
  • Guitar
  • Too Much

• Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Easy

• As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • America
  • Violence
  • Picture

• I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Real
  • Question
  • Story

• Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Real
  • Dying

• 'Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.'

  

  Connie Willis

• A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that's the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do.

  

  Lucy Dacus

• My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • Good
  • Work
  • True

• I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Business
  • Science
  • Culture

• Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • World
  • Hunger
  • Sauce

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Political
  • Action
  • Running

• I did find Calypso hotdog - but only once, far in the depths of the very wildest of Canadian dark woods, near those high, cold, moss-covered swamps. … I felt as if I were in the presence of superior beings who loved me and beckoned me to come. I sat down beside them and wept for joy.

  

  John Muir
  • High
  • Joy
  • Dark

• A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

  

  Martin Donovan
  • Up

• In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Money
  • Civilization
  • Lows