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

• 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

• 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

• With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Taken

• Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

  

  Adrienne Clarkson
  • Cutting

• Personally, I think there's a lot to recommend being friends with your ex, and I'm glad to admit that I'm living proof of its possibility.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Friends

• There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Simple
  • Compassion
  • Infinite

• I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Interesting

• By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Children
  • Information
  • Teach

• The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Violence
  • Chains
  • Aggression

• 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