Alec-Tweedie Quotes

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

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• I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Matter

• Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Home
  • Christian
  • Born

• If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Humanity

• Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Stress

• We have a responsibility to be aware of others.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Responsibility

• A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.

  

  Sahndra Fon Dufe
  • Education
  • Queens
  • Bees

• I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • Space
  • Place

• He is called the horse.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Horse
  • Called

• The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.

  

  Aaron Dontez Yates
  • Music
  • Forever
  • Longevity

• I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.

  

  William Fitzgerald Harper
  • Learning
  • Film
  • Theater

• The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.

  

  David George Hogarth
  • Limitations
  • Archaeology
  • Hypotheses

• Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Home
  • Injustice
  • Corrected

• The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Country
  • Help

• I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Up
  • Used
  • Ghetto

• In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.

  

  Bernhard von Cotta
  • Law
  • Results
  • Consequence

• Cars and women are a lot alike. They lie about the milage.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Women
  • Lie
  • Cars

• Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Memories
  • Soup
  • Usual

• Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

  

  Alec-Tweedie
  • Civilisation
  • Alike
  • Peas