Colin Wilson Quotes

The unbeliever walks for a quadrillion miles, yet one moments of reality makes up for it.

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• I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Rights

• When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Storm
  • News
  • Complexity

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Politician
  • Asset

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Thought
  • Writer
  • Tough

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
  • Partnerships

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Health
  • Government
  • Service

• It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Day
  • Myself

• Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• There is no truly global justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Justice
  • Global
  • Truly

• The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Long
  • American
  • Help

• I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in some new generals on the financial front.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • War
  • Hope
  • Financial

• I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Music
  • Soul

• Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Writing
  • Reality

• The unbeliever walks for a quadrillion miles, yet one moments of reality makes up for it.

  

  Colin Wilson
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