Barrington Moore Jr. Quotes

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

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• I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Home

• The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Universe

• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Free

• Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • American
  • Success

• My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • God
  • Science
  • Confused

• For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Hope
  • Person
  • Politics

• On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Book
  • America
  • Hope

• I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Children

• You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Truth

• Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Done
  • Hope

• I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Believe
  • Confidence
  • Broken

• I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Believe
  • Single
  • I Believe

• There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • God
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Power

• Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • God
  • Believe
  • Earth

• I'm not against other cultures, but I believe what the Germans call a "leitkultur", a dominant culture that we should have, even in our constitution state, what our dominant culture is and that our laws should apply to that culture and to no other one.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Believe
  • Culture
  • Law

• Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Goals

• The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

  

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Up
  • History
  • Earth

• The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

  

  Leland Stanford

• For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

  

  Barrington Moore Jr.
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Science