Anthony Giddens Quotes

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

Anthony Giddens

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Best

• Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Bank

• I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Day

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • You
  • Down
  • Step

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Politics
  • Place

• I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Appreciate

• I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Reading

• I feel like with anything you choose to do in this world, there are always gonna be people who disagree. But I've had a lot more supporters than critics.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • World
  • Choose

• I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Society
  • Picture
  • Beauty

• I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Singing

• I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Believe
  • Daily

• I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Friend
  • Cool

• I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Practice
  • Silly

• Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

  

  Jeremy Hardy
  • Work
  • Great
  • Practice

• What the world craves today is a more spiritual and less formal religion. To the man or woman facing death, great conflict, the big problems of human life, the forms of religion are of minor concern, while the spirit of religion is a desperately needed source of inspiration, comfort and strength.

  

  John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
  • Death
  • Religion
  • Inspiration

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spiritual
  • Progress

• Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Practice
  • Risk
  • Concern