Colin Ward Quotes

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

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• It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Religion
  • Morality
  • Simply

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Kids
  • Together

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Great
  • Children
  • City

• In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Leader
  • Just
  • Dalai Lama

• Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Jazz
  • Canvas
  • Possibilities

• From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Man

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Friends
  • House
  • Me

• Marilyn Monroe: What about the difference in our ages?

  

  Jack Benny

• The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • Art
  • Single

• I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.

  

  Katheryn Winnick
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

  

  Will Self
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Creative

• My past was so amazing. It's that fine line of appreciating it and letting it go. I have my animal rescue, and I have my daughter and my family that helped me move forward.

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Family
  • Past
  • Amazing

• I find myself to be the least intimidating person ever.

  

  Chris Zylka

• Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

  

  Colin Ward
  • Powerful
  • State
  • Protects