Denis Parsons Burkitt Quotes

America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

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• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Challenges

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Different
  • America
  • Best

• I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Great
  • America

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • America
  • Kind

• America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Children
  • America

• 'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Good
  • America
  • Age

• There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Country
  • Experience
  • America

• Despite the never-ending debate on the question of the role of government in America, there's been a strong tradition of protecting our undisputed, important natural treasures or taking on great common engineering challenges.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Important
  • America

• The demographics of the country are going to change. It's inevitable. The Latino community in America is going to grow. If you stopped all immigration today, just by virtue of birth rates, this is going to be a browner country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • America
  • Today

• Here is tragedy-and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • America
  • Blonde

• I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get into news media. I'm very lucky to have two things that can engage my brain at once.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Music
  • Brain

• When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • World
  • Country
  • Football

• According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Psychology
  • Buddhist
  • Attachment

• Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Government
  • Better
  • Economy

• America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

  

  Denis Parsons Burkitt
  • America
  • Hospitals
  • Stools