Jack London Quotes

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

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• We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Where

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Technology

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Black
  • Simple

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Political
  • Finance
  • Bank

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Think
  • Man
  • Drink

• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • God
  • Fear

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • College
  • Myself

• I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Writing
  • School
  • Age

• I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Me
  • Always
  • Potential

• When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • America
  • Environment
  • iPhone

• I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of the problem, and another part of the brain has to stitch it all together, like a tapestry or a quilt.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Together
  • Small
  • Brain

• The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.

  

  Fred Hoyle
  • Life

• Actually they Netflix were telling us to push it further and I've never gotten a nod like that from anybody in the industry, so it's been awesome to work with them. I'm very happy where we're at.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Happy
  • Industry

• There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

  

  Jack London
  • Wisdom
  • Justice
  • Judge