Richard Powers Quotes
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
Richard Powers
Quotes to Explore
-
We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
Zac Brown Band
-
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
-
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
Gagan Narang
-
People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
Nancy Reagan
-
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
Jackie Cooper
-
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana
Santana
-
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone
-
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor
-
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides
-
If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
Octavia Spencer
-
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
-
But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
Parker Posey
-
When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.
Jimmy Fallon
-
People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Jack Nicklaus
-
When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
Joel Silver
-
Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.
H. Emilie Cady
-
The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.
Winona LaDuke
-
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
Richard Powers
