William Winwood Reade Quotes

We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

William Winwood Reade

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• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Done
  • Cute
  • Naked

• Incommensurables cannot be compared.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Cannot
  • Compared

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Getting Older

• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

  

  Beck
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Personality

• Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • God
  • Family
  • Thank God

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Political
  • Rest

• I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

  

  Warren Giles
  • Game
  • Star
  • Winning

• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Man

• As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • People
  • Leave
  • Watch

• After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Country
  • Ignore

• In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

  

  Jef I. Richards
  • World

• Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

  

  John Cage

• Time and space are only forms of thought.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Time
  • Space
  • Form

• Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Alone
  • Bitter

• We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • World
  • Drama
  • Animal