David Bodanis Quotes

I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

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• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Experience
  • You
  • Paint

• Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Better
  • Worst
  • Hello

• Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Animal
  • Strange
  • Very

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Conflict
  • The Right Thing

• At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Work
  • Relationship

• Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Nature
  • Religion
  • Islam

• Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Step

• First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Know
  • Said
  • Thank You

• A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religious
  • Option
  • View

• I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Long
  • Career
  • Science

• I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Alone

• I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Shoes

• Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Children

• How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Style

• We should care about each other.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony

• I was thrilled as a kid to point out my sister as she danced and sang on the stage, and she was pretty good artistically. She was a great inspiration to me. She was the one who sort of led me into show business.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • Business
  • Inspiration
  • Sister

• I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• Donald Trump ran for office complaining that at $19 trillion, the US debt was completely out of control, and yet what he's planning to do is throw trillions of dollars more onto that debt. If the proposed tax plan cuts upon the wealthiest Americans is enacted, 10 years from now America's debt will be over $30 trillion. And so, he's contradicting, his own stated positions. And that's because, to Donald, none of this is about policy. It's not about sound economics. It's about greed and the glorification of the great leader.

  

  David Cay Johnston
  • Leader
  • Cutting
  • Planning

• I'm drinking lots of herbal tea.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Drinking
  • Tea

• I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

  

  David Bodanis
  • Technology
  • Helping
  • Worried