Carroll Quigley Quotes
We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.
Carroll Quigley
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
Magnus Larsson
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
Jack Black
The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
Laura Hillenbrand
The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
Samira Wiley
I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
Rani Mukerji
I like fighters who come to fight.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
Gary Lockwood
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
Ted Turner
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
A. N. Wilson
I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.
Taraji P. Henson
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul II
Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.
Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman
Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.
Hakuin Ekaku
My wife is possessive and I like that
Fawad Afzal Khan
During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.
Luther Burbank
We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.
Carroll Quigley
