Nicholas von Hoffman Quotes

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

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• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Progress
  • Discrimination

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Evil

• Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • Done
  • Experience

• Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

  

  Nadezhda Krupskaya
  • Men
  • Women

• I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • World
  • Science
  • Writers

• Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

  

  Van Jones

• I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!

  

  Jack Roy
  • Money
  • She
  • Wife

• I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Driving
  • Cars
  • Fleet

• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Long
  • Power
  • Control

• We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

  

  Epictetus
  • Character
  • Effort
  • Impressions

• My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Dad
  • Golf
  • Teenager

• Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • Way
  • Grown-Up

• He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Cat
  • Kill
  • Walks

• I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.

  

  Arturo Sandoval
  • Style
  • Playing
  • Invented

• We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's the top of the ninth inning, and humanity has been hitting nature hard, but you've always got to remember that nature bats last."

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • People
  • Remember
  • Humanity

• Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • People
  • Environment
  • Force

• You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

  

  Bono U2
  • Exciting
  • Idealism
  • Pragmatism

• Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

  

  Nicholas von Hoffman
  • Americans
  • Challenged
  • Quarrel