Ernest Gellner Quotes

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Best
  • Teacher
  • Ever

• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • First

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Best

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Running
  • Wife
  • Congress

• What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • New
  • Old

• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Deception

• It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Success

• Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • School
  • Movie

• When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Feeling
  • College
  • Brain

• At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Day
  • End

• I am a lifelong Democrat.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Democrat
  • Lifelong

• The truth sustains me.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Truth
  • Me
  • Sustains

• Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Social
  • Terrorism

• With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

  

  Arnold Beichman
  • Human
  • Condition
  • Revolutions

• Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Wisdom
  • Humble

• United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • World
  • Trying
  • Peace

• It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

  

  Ernest Gellner
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  • Nations
  • Nationalism