Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Anything
  • Tricky

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Performer

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• I was born free.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Free
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Different
  • Change
  • Simple

• I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Real
  • Think

• Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Reality

• The difference between that which is ascribed to God and that which is ascribed to man is expressed in the words... 'And your ways are not my ways.' (Is. lv. 8-9)

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Words

• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Game

• ...words were said that could not be put right again...

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Words

• What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Great
  • Dance
  • Judge

• The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

  

  Bob Barr
  • World
  • Freedom

• Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Time
  • Mind

• Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

  

  James Buchan
  • Great
  • History
  • Fall

• To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Up
  • Good

• Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

  

  Chris LeDoux
  • Life
  • Work

• Greatest American Hero, I really dug that as a kid, because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Kids

• If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Importance
  • Dictionary
  • Gab

• Few people love with the violence they hate.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• The wealth of America isn’t an inventory of goods; it’s an organic, living entity, a fragile, pulsing fabric of ideas, expectations, loyalties, moral commitments, visions, and people. To slice it up like an apple pie and redistribute it would destroy it just as surely as trying to share Stephen Hawking’s intellect by sharing slices of his brain would surely kill him.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Wealth
  • Kill
  • Destroy

• Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

  

  Nicolas Gomez Davila
  • Violence
  • Civilization
  • Destroy