William S. Lind Quotes

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

William S. Lind

• Culture
• Politics
• Survival
• Destruction

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Happy
  • Proud
  • Care

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• 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.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Think
  • 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.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Family
  • Health
  • Violence

• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • 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.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Relationship
  • Question
  • Media

• 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.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Good
  • Man

• In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Character
  • Small
  • Yourself

• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • More
  • My Own

• First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Chance
  • First
  • Achievement

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• Ronald Isley is a musical genius.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Genius
  • Musical

• 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.'

  

  Jack Germond
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Political

• 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.'

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Country
  • Girl

• Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Air
  • Old
  • Dress

• If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Night

• Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Chicago

• Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • America
  • Best
  • Better

• The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

  

  Franz Halder
  • Enemy

• Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

  

  John Corigliano
  • People
  • Music
  • Culture

• What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

  

  William S. Lind
  • Culture
  • Politics
  • Survival