Bernard Lewis Quotes

Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one.

Bernard Lewis

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• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Lies
  • Organization
  • Victory

• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Know

• Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Find

• What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Important
  • Military
  • Budget

• The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Women
  • Society
  • Army

• I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Growing
  • City
  • Government

• It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Business
  • Same
  • Tell

• If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• The whole system of society tells you what to do.

  

  Barry White
  • Society
  • You
  • Whole

• By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Security
  • Concentration

• A mom has to be ready for anything.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Mom
  • Anything
  • Ready

• I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Important
  • Book

• I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

  

  Kerry King Slayer
  • World
  • Crazy

• Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry, Of the torches wisping in the underground, Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light. There are no shadows in our sun, Day is desire and night is sleep. There are no shadows anywhere. The earth, for us, is flat and bare. There are no shadows.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Earth
  • Light

• If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

  

  James Redfield
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'

  

  Kate Spade
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Market

• Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • May
  • Election
  • Fruit

• Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Desire
  • Problems
  • Cold War