Thomas Sowell Quotes
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
-
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
-
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
-
I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
-
After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
-
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
-
Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
-
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
-
You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
-
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
-
There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
-
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
-
I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
-
Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.
-
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
-
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
-
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
-
There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
-
Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.
-
If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.
-
There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.
-
But in our Sanazarro 'tis not so,He being pure and tried gold; and any stampOf grace, to make him current to the world,The duke is pleased to give him, will add honourTo the great bestower; for he, though allow'dCompanion to his master, still preservesHis majesty in full lustre.
-
I believe that that's why you see all these Pew studies that come out that a lot of people are walking away from the faith. A lot of people are changing what they believe because they really feel lied to. I think that it's very important for people to know what they're signing up for.
-
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.
