Victor Davis Hanson Quotes
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.Victor Davis Hanson
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
Ramez Naam -
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
Ed Begley, Jr. -
In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
Larry Wilmore -
I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
Parker Posey -
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
Ferdinand Marcos -
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
Bashar al-Assad
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde -
As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss -
When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
Edmund Morgan -
And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
Aaron Neville -
The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
Dana Goodyear
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
Qandeel Baloch -
I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
Faith Hill -
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner -
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
Ian Somerhalder -
It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
Becky G -
But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
Fisher Stevens
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I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second.
Barack Obama -
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Charlotte Bronte -
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
Meghan O'Rourke -
They're also surprised I'm only 6 feet tall. They expect someone much bigger. They say I'm younger and prettier in person, which I like.
Lucy Lawless -
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
Victor Davis Hanson