Colin Ward Quotes

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

Colin Ward

• Society
• Complexity
• Anarchy
• Organizations
• Multiplicity

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• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Always
  • Strange

• Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • World
  • Long
  • Rome

• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Small
  • Same
  • Company

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Deep

• We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Places
  • Sand

• My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • School
  • Mother
  • City

• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Enjoy

• I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Fashion
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • America
  • Spiritual
  • Influence

• I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • She
  • Mom
  • Acting

• I'm a gun owner.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Gun
  • Owner

• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Contradict

• Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

  

  Jim Sullivan

• Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • Music
  • Listening

• Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy

• It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Hair
  • Sweet
  • Laughing

• Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

  

  Colin Ward
  • Society
  • Complexity
  • Anarchy