Diane Ackerman Quotes

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• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Past
  • Path
  • Company

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• You can't escape from what you are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • You
  • Escape

• It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Great
  • Honor
  • Gratitude

• What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Mind
  • True
  • Lose

• I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Want
  • Fear

• I would put myself towards left of center.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Myself
  • Left
  • Center

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • City
  • Myself
  • Style

• Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Forever

• I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Think
  • Girl
  • Best

• I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World

• Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • May
  • True
  • High

• This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Why
  • Power
  • Technology

• In the Deep South, the unequal distribution of school funds based on Negroes’ “mental inferiority” was one way the caste system maintained itself through the generations. “Inferior” students got inferior schools, but truly, it was the inferior schools that created the inferior students. The two years of study resulted in the book Deep South, a seminal book in modern anthropology.

  

  Alison Stewart
  • School
  • System
  • Caste

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Couple

• Think positive thoughts, intensely. Grow enthusiastic images, boldly. Speak only wonderful words to yourself, constantly. Feel fantastic, NOW! This colors your view of the world. Like a magnet, you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire.

  

  Mark Victor Hansen
  • Thinking
  • Wonderful
  • Resources

• Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Soul
  • Libraries