Arthur Dobrin Quotes

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community.

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• I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Know
  • Will
  • Prepare

• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Him
  • Object

• My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • You
  • Stop
  • Hair

• For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Power
  • Together

• Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Truth
  • Stand
  • Discovery

• What! from his helpless Creature be repaid Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay'd - Sue for a Debt he never did contract, And cannot answer - Oh, the sorry trade!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Gold
  • Sorry

• I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it's like, 'You're not doing enough in your life if you're not making someone angry.' And I'm like, 'Man. But my life - I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?' That's the way my inside voice sounds.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• In 1995, I had been chosen to make a short presentation about the state of the TV business at a company retreat in Santa Barbara. At the time, I felt we were not real competitors in network television. The studio wasn't prolific; we didn't have much of a brand.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

  

  Margaret Haddix
  • Reading

• Playing Mark Antony in 'Rome' will always be a favourite of mine because he was such an outrageously big and interesting character to play. Also, the fact that we were able, with that character, to find out and present the public with a biography of that man that had not been really seen before.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Present

• We have to have the faithful in government.

  

  Katherine Harris

• I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • World
  • Work

• I like being part of teams that go into things that people don't think are doing very well and getting into them to do better.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • People

• I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Great
  • Player
  • Challenge

• I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• Growing up in eastern Germany, I knew of Superman, but he didn't resonate emotionally with me.

  

  Antje Traue
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Superman

• Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Money
  • Future

• So let us not be petty when our cause is so great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation’s future is at stake.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Great
  • Future
  • Petty

• The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today - and that Haiti has a nascent democracy - is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It's because the world has said, 'Enough.'

  

  Joe Garcia
  • World
  • Today
  • Community

• I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Community
  • Baseball
  • Basketball

• In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • City
  • Car
  • Bike

• We will continue to make ROI as supportive, diverse and beneficial as possible and to meet the evolving needs of the members and communities we serve.

  

  Lynn Schusterman

• What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community.

  

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