Eliot Weinberger Quotes

Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.

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• I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Star
  • Theatre

• This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Playing

• Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Car
  • Dangerous
  • Situations

• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Prove
  • United

• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Laws
  • Legal
  • Houses

• Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Thought

• Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Ready

• If it’s anything that’s going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don’t think the end justifies the means. … Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can’t really address that.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Hurt

• 'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • God
  • Silence

• Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Song
  • Fierce

• The MEChA slogan is 'Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,' which translates, 'For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.' The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: 'Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.'

  

  Pat Buchanan

• Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Jesus

• I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

  

  Max Lucado

• Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

  

  James Herbert

• Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

  

  Archibald Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Present

• I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Know

• We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Wind
  • Solar

• I have visited (Burma) and I know that there is only one instrument of government, and that is the army...If I were Aung San Suu Kyi, I think I'd rather be behind a fence and be a symbol than after two or three years, be found impotent.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Army
  • Fence

• The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

  

  John von Neumann
  • Work
  • Model

• Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.

  

  Eliot Weinberger
  • Wind
  • Praise
  • Generations