Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
Quotes to Explore
-
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
-
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
-
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
-
I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
-
I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
-
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
-
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
-
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
-
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
-
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
-
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
-
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
-
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
-
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
-
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
-
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
-
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
-
People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
-
I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.
-
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.
-
I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
-
Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth.
-
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
-
At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
