Adam Haslett Quotes

We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.

Adam Haslett

• World
• Human
• Run
• Atomized

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • War
  • Human
  • Financial

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Done
  • Winning

• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • World
  • Believe
  • Compassion

• We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Live
  • Friends

• When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • India
  • Second

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Different
  • Myself

• We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don't feel lost. It doesn't hinder you. It only helps.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • World
  • Dream
  • Lost

• The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • World
  • Choices

• The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • Light
  • Trust

• And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • Run
  • State
  • Musicians

• What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Internet

• You've got to be pretty mean to pick up on women who only know you from television and then cast them aside.

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Up
  • Women
  • Pretty

• The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Best

• One of women's greatest values is compassion.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Women
  • Compassion
  • Values

• We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.

  

  Adam Haslett
  • World
  • Human
  • Run