William Graham Sumner Quotes

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

William Graham Sumner

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• I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Change

• An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Society
  • Intellectual
  • Call

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Style
  • Serious
  • Wonder

• God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Jesus

• There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Book
  • Religion
  • Intelligent

• Some people will always be disappointed.

  

  Len Wiseman
  • People

• If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Rise Up

• Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Power
  • Words
  • Vibratory

• I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Space

• I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Eyes

• One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Money
  • History
  • Opportunity

• Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Lord

• Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • World
  • Media
  • Globes

• I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Movies

• History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Stories
  • Repetition
  • Tiresome