William S. Lind Quotes
What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
Quotes to Explore
-
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
-
I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
-
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
-
I like being unconventional.
-
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
-
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
-
I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
-
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
-
We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
-
Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
-
For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
-
There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
-
I've been racketeered on.
-
In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.
-
I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
-
Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
-
I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
-
I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
-
As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
-
We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
-
All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
-
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
-
To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.
-
What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
