William Pfaff Quotes

For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.

William Pfaff

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• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Society
  • Doing
  • Back

• I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Try
  • Anything

• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Day
  • Week
  • Three

• It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Children
  • Animals

• Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Progression

• Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • History
  • Man

• An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Life
  • Education

• As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Girl
  • Fall
  • Snow

• I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I like to do some sort of either meditation or mental visualization or breathing exercises - something to calm my mind down because a lot of times, it's just going faster than it should.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • World
  • Mind
  • Calm

• Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

  

  James Dyson
  • People

• My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Work
  • Together
  • Mother

• I'm an amateur.

  

  Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda

• I realised that a lot of women felt the same way I did - they didn't want to wear heavy make-up, but, for whatever reason, there were elements in their skin they want to smooth out or cover.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Up
  • Women

• I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive.

  

  Emily Deschanel
  • Work
  • She
  • Positive

• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• in the unliterary grammar of life, where the future tense stands first, and the past is formed, not from the indefinite, but from the present indicative, 'to have been' is 'to be'.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Revenge
  • Bore
  • Warn

• I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Travel

• For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.

  

  William Pfaff
  • World
  • Civilization
  • Assuming