Arthur Demarest Quotes

On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.

Arthur Demarest

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• My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Work
  • Mother
  • California

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Different
  • Mountain
  • Someone

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Sharing

• I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Wish

• A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • She

• There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

  

  Anya Seton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mountain

• When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Happy
  • Angry
  • Hopeful

• For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Endurance

• Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Art
  • Business
  • Strong

• You just have to stay positive.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Positive

• That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • Universe

• A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Film
  • Period
  • Gift

• He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.

  

  Gerhard Tersteegen
  • Draws
  • Destroys
  • Disposal

• If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.

  

  Wilbert Rideau
  • Different
  • Judge
  • Themselves

• Do not make too much haste on one's road.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Road
  • Haste

• Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Light
  • Painting
  • Critic

• On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.

  

  Arthur Demarest
  • Civilization
  • Collapse
  • Pessimistic