Amos Elon Quotes
Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes it difficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare.
Amos Elon
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John
I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
Laura Dern
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
Warren Bennis
Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
Walter Annenberg
The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.
Yair Lapid
I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
Ursula K. Le Guin
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
Camille Paglia
Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
Alexander Pope
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
Ayn Rand
I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.
Claire Foy
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.
Diplo
I can't tell anyone to vote.
David A. Siegel
Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.
Kathie Lee Gifford
We are living in a culture where we are so led by the visual, and what is promoted in the media, that the attitude becomes, 'I don't have to go through normalcy in life - I can look for exemptions. And I expect them, and when I look for them and they are not there, I am angry.'
Ben Harney
I would never stay under circumstances where I felt I was a figurehead and might look good in your team media guide. I don't want to be that. I do want to contribute, and if I don't contribute, I'll walk away from it. If I don't feel welcomed, I'll walk away from it.
Jerry West
I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.
Joe Carnahan
I would say that when you do something out of the goodness of your heart, and you don't know what the repercussions will be, you have to live with that. And it can be devastating. Because the intention was there.
Chrissy Metz