Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

Well aware of both the continuity and contingency of human affairs, Adams and Madison searched the works of Tacitus and Voltaire and Locke like carpenters rummaging through their assortment of tools, knowing that all the pediments were jury-rigged, all the provisional, all the alliances temporary.

Lewis H. Lapham

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• We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Information

• If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Wisdom

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Experience
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Hair
  • Need
  • Products

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Real
  • End
  • Garden

• When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Old
  • Big
  • Confident

• People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Now
  • Saying

• When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

  

  Beck
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Genius

• I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Short
  • Three

• As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Long
  • Team
  • Football

• I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Think

• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Children
  • History
  • Movie

• I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?

  

  Arsenius the Great
  • Just
  • Sinner
  • Saved

• Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

  

  Alan Loy McGinnis
  • Tears
  • Emotion
  • Sadness

• Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dwell

• There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

  

  David Whyte
  • People
  • Life

• Well aware of both the continuity and contingency of human affairs, Adams and Madison searched the works of Tacitus and Voltaire and Locke like carpenters rummaging through their assortment of tools, knowing that all the pediments were jury-rigged, all the provisional, all the alliances temporary.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham