Alvin Dark Quotes

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

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• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Friends
  • Day
  • Mine

• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • War
  • Future

• I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Teen

• What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Question

• I love the Army with every bone in my body.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Body
  • Army
  • Bone

• I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Taught

• I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • House
  • Almost
  • Afford

• Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • Air
  • Conflict

• In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • World
  • Hope

• Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Consequence
  • Oil
  • Export

• Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Girl
  • Confidence

• Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• We all have insecurities, but some of us are better at covering them up.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up

• All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Women

• Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

  

  David Chalmers
  • People

• … It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Broken

• Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.

  

  Dalton Camp
  • Money
  • Value
  • Having

• I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

  

  Max Brooks
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mind

• Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

  

  Alvin Dark