Amitai Etzioni Quotes

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

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• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Men
  • Real
  • Hope

• Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • You
  • Reverence

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Story

• I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Olympic
  • Medallist

• Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Hair
  • Whatever
  • Wax

• Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Done
  • House

• Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nothing

• Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Great
  • Write
  • Working

• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Friends
  • House
  • Liberty

• If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Appreciation
  • Shown

• It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

  

  Randy Moss
  • People
  • Mind
  • Speak

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Hope is the poor man's bread.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Hope
  • Man
  • Bread

• I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Working

• I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Live
  • Think

• The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Cold

• I still skate occasionally but last time I did, at our show in Hanford, I did a 360 frontside varial over our rolled-up banner and broke every damn bone in my body. Ok, I only broke one bone. Well, I didn't break any bones, but I could have!

  

  Jade Puget Blaqk Audio
  • Body
  • Break
  • Bones

• The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • People
  • Problems
  • Cemetery

• When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Air
  • Waiting
  • Spirit

• Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Done
  • Best

• You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Pray

• Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

  

  Amitai Etzioni
  • Problems
  • Solutions
  • Agenda