Adolf Bastian Quotes

What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.

Adolf Bastian

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• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

  

  Tablo
  • Love
  • You
  • Doing

• I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Science
  • Fiction
  • Films

• It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Strong

• It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Happiness

• Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Environment
  • Better
  • More

• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • Gentleman
  • Wolf

• But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Nails

• I am married.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Married

• They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Better
  • Order

• If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • World
  • Business
  • Pretty

• I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Alone

• If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • You
  • Better

• For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Women
  • History
  • Contemporaries

• My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

  

  Koichi Tanaka
  • Grandmother

• The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Purpose
  • Tree
  • Spring

• Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

  

  Phil Hartman
  • High

• I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band
  • Life

• What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.

  

  Adolf Bastian
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