Raymond Williams Quotes

Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

Raymond Williams

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Hipster
  • Neither
  • Nor

• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Water
  • Leave

• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Think
  • Way
  • Just

• I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Great
  • Mom
  • Easy

• It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Believe
  • Difficult
  • Point

• I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Like
  • Being
  • Himself

• A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Mystery

• The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Leader
  • Just
  • Dalai Lama

• It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Always
  • Role

• All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Christian
  • Authority
  • Modern

• We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Together

• We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Hand
  • Road

• My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Music
  • Family

• Justin Smith was one of the most underrated players in the NFL for what he did. He would sacrifice and do the dirty work, then someone else would clean up off it.

  

  John Madden
  • Up
  • Work
  • Sacrifice

• My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Childhood

• Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Remember
  • Financial

• Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Remember
  • Free
  • Liberty

• When you're not born in this country, you kind of study how people talk and how they act, and you try and break things down.

  

  John Cho
  • People
  • Country
  • Study

• Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

  

  Raymond Williams
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