Charles Issawi Quotes

The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction - for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment - is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution.

Charles Issawi

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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Universe
  • Seems
  • Neither

• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • People
  • Energy
  • Unique

• Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Perfect
  • Warm
  • Cheese

• I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Why
  • Character
  • Girl

• Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

  

  Tacitus
  • Men
  • Love
  • Learned

• The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Deep

• I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Good
  • Parents

• I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Needs
  • Adapt
  • Workouts

• Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Dog
  • Jealousy
  • Thieves

• I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Enjoy

• There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Feel
  • Saying
  • Hungry

• The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Different
  • Science
  • Technology

• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

  

  Aesop
  • Shadow

• Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Morning

• There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

  

  Christopher Guest

• Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time.

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Time
  • English

• No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • King
  • Talent
  • Existence

• Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • People
  • Like
  • Irish

• Nothing is constant except change.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Change
  • Nothing
  • Constant

• There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Future

• The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction - for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment - is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution.

  

  Charles Issawi
  • Evil
  • System
  • Constant