C. Wright Mills Quotes
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Quotes to Explore
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'
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Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
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My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
