George Sarton Quotes

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

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• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Forever

• There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Earth
  • Silence

• I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Artist

• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Honor
  • Perfection

• Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Music
  • Women
  • Performers

• And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

  

  Nancy Pelosi

• You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

  

  Naomi Wolf

• When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.

  

  Dawn Steel

• A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Mother
  • Courage
  • Baby

• A man can preach no better than he prays.

  

  Charles Stanley

• I clear my wardrobe of anything I'm not wearing and give the clothes to charity.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Charity

• I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.

  

  Kim Cattrall

• I am a United States citizen and I vote.

  

  Martha Plimpton

• Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

  

  Aristotle
  • Science
  • Essence
  • Properties

• 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

• War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Angel
  • Missions
  • Slums

• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• It's hard not to love everything Prada does.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Hard

• From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

  

  George Sarton
  • Achievement
  • Essence
  • Replaced