E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798
“Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.”
“Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.”
“Establish yourself in God and then you will be helpful to others.”
“Established biological science clearly shows that it is time to bulldoze all manned facilities atop Mauna Kea in order to protect worker health and safety.”
“Established early on in life, and still is perhaps my favorite 'intuition pump' is the life of Emily Dickinson. I viewed a short biography recently where an expert, quite frankly states that she really didn't do a whole lot with her time. SHE DIDNT DO ANYTHING. She didn't even get that many poems published while she lived. I guess her parents were well off, but remember, this is the middle of the 19th century, people. So, remember, don't work too hard. and if you do, charge them a whole lotta money. Remember I have an 90 foot motor Yacht on my vision board?”
“Established in Being, perform action.”
“Established politicians are also bumping into a new cast of characters within corridors of legislative power. In 2010 parliamentary elections in Brazil, for example, the candidate who won the most votes anywhere in the country (and the second-most-voted congressman in the country's history) was a clown - an actual clown who went by the name of Tiririca and wore his clown costume while he campaigned. His platform was as anti-politician as it gets. "I don't know what a representative in congress does," he told voters in YouTube video that attracted millions of voters, "but if you send me there I will tell you". He also explained that his goal was "to help needy people in this country, but especially my family".”
Source: The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
“Established Sino-Burmese businessmen continue to remain at the helm of Myanmar's economy, where the Chinese minority have been transformed almost overnight into a garishly distinctive prosperous business community. Much of the foreign investment capital into the Burmese economy has been from Mainland Chinese investors and channeled through Burmese Chinese business networks for new startup businesses or foreign acquisitions. Many members of the Burmese Chinese business community act as agents for Mainland and overseas Chinese investors outside of Myanmar. In 1988, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) came to power, and gradually loosened the government's role in the economy, encouraging private sector growth and foreign investment. This liberalization of state's role in the economy, if slight and uneven, nonetheless gave Burmese Chinese-led businesses extra space to expand and reassert their economic clout. Today, virtually all of Myanmar's retail, wholesale and shipping firms are in Chinese hands. For example, Sein Gayha, a major Burmese retailer that began in Yangon's Chinatown in 1985, is owned by a Burmese Hakka family. Moreover, ethnic Chinese control the nations four of the five largest commercial banks, Myanmar Universal Bank, Yoma Bank, Myanmar Mayflower Bank, and the Asia Wealth Bank. Today, Myanmar's ethnic Chinese community are now at the forefront of opening up the country's economy, especially towards Mainland China as an international overseas Chinese economic outpost. The Chinese government has been very proactive in engaging with the overseas Chinese diaspora and using China's soft power to help the Burmese Chinese community stay close to their roots in order to foster business ties.[9] Much of the foreign investment from Mainland China now entering Myanmar is being channeled through overseas Chinese bamboo networks. Many members of the Burmese Chinese business community often act as agents for expatriate and overseas Chinese investors outside of Myanmar.”
“Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave NO LEGIBLE FOSSIL RECORD.”
“Established systems are inherently hostile to change.”
“Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.”
“Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski observed, it would provide the US with "critical leverage" of its European and Asian rivals, a conception with roots in early post-war planning. These are substantial reasons for aggression - not unlike those of the British when they invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years earlier, at the dawn of the oil age.”
“Establishing a place of sincere love requires a center of genuine love. In an expanded state outwards and inwards towards the middle becomes the acceptance of all.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.”
“Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.”
“Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.”
“Establishing contact with the common fae of this region may lead us to your door."
He looked dubious. "You were lucky with Poe. Your luck will run out if you aren't careful."
"I'd wager it ran out long ago, as I'm presently traipsing round the world on an errand for an indolent monarch," I replied acidly”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
“Establishing proper economic governance that allows the Eurozone to undertake the integration it needs whilst protecting the interests of the single market for all 28, the rights of member states who are not in the Euro - including of course the UK - is really important for the future of the European Union.”
“Establishing social certainty helps you build trust, develop rapport, and strengthen your connection. However, the right questions might lead you to find a niche of commonality in someone who is very different from you. It can be professionally and personally rewarding.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Establishing the Word of God defeats our spiritual enemies and protects our prosperity.”
“Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page, going in. With that said, first-time director or not, you never know what you're going to get.”
“Establishment suggests there must be some Wizard of Oz somewhere pulling the strings. That's not the way it works. There are individuals like myself. I sat there and watched Donald Trump, and I said, look, someone has got to say something.”
“Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws.”
“Estabrooks himself a 32nd degree Mason. Although the Masons are not implicated as an organization in CIA and military mind control, connections in the network of doctors were maintained in part through high rank Masons.”
Source: The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists
“Estados de ilusión mantenidos a lo largo de unos días activan un proceso de neurogénesis: células madres acuden al hipocampo -zona de memoria y aprendizaje- y se transforman en neuronas. Conocemos pocas formas de regenerar nuevas células neuronales, ¡la pasión y la ilusión son una de ellas!”
Source: Cómo hacer que te pasen cosas buenas
“Estamos absurdamente acostumados ao milagre de que uns poucos sinais escritos são capazes de conter imagens imortais, espirais de pensamentos, novos mundos com pessoas vivas que falam, choram e riem. Aceitamos isso com tanta simplicidade que de certo modo, pelo próprio ato da aceitação insensível e rotineira, desfazemos a obra de todos os tempos, a história do desenvolvimento gradual da descrição e construção poéticas, do hominídeo a Browning, do troglodita a Keats. Que aconteceria se acordássemos um dia, todos nós, e descobríssemos que éramos totalmente incapazes de ler? Quero que vocês se maravilhem não apenas com o que lêem, mas com o milagre de que algo seja passível de ser lido.”
Source: Pale fire
“Estamos aquí para trascender, no solamente para respirar.”
“Estamos confundiendo las imágenes de la realidad con la realidad; la propia realidad se convierte en espectáculo.”
“Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres.”
Source: The Caves of Steel
“Estamos crucificados; no como Dios, que lo fue en carne sobre una cruz, sino que estamos crucificados sobre el tiempo y el espacio.”
Source: Hell
“Estamos de tal modo constituidos que tan solo nos es dado vislumbrar la eternidad desde la fragil y perecedera carne.”
“Estamos destinados a inventar nuestro destino, sin segundas oportunidades. Por eso los hombres nos equivocamos y nos defraudamos, y cometemos atrocidades, pero también, gracias a eso, podemos transformar nuestra vida, inventar sus contenidos.”
Source: Ética de urgencia
“Estamos en guerra. Mi táctica bélica puede resumirse en dos principios. Primero, yo sólo ataco cosas que triunfan, en ocasiones espero hasta que lo consiguen. Segundo, yo sólo ataco cuando no voy a encontrar aliados, cuando estoy solo, cuando me comprometo exclusivamente a mí mismo.”
Source: Los diarios de Emilio Renzi I: Años de formación
“Estamos en peligro de sacrificar la calidad de la lectura a la cantidad, en peligro de leer demasiado y demasiado rápido como para estar en posición de juzgar lo que leemos.”
Source: Si mi biblioteca ardiera esta noche. Ensayos sobre arte, música, literatura y otras drogas
“Estamos en un mundo en el que cualquier gilipollas que salga en la tele hablando de que se ha follado a no sé qué famoso gana más de lo que tú y yo podemos ganar en toda nuestra vida.”
Source: Leviatán
“Estamos frente a un nuevo tipo de capitalismo caliente, psicotrópico y punk. Estas trasformaciones recientes apuntan hacia la articulación de un conjunto de nuevos dispositivos microprostéticos de control de la subjetividad con nuevas plataformas técnicas biomoleculares y mediáticas. La nueva «economía-mundo» no funciona sin el despliegue simultáneo e interconectado de la producción de cientos de toneladas de esteroides sintéticos, sin la difusión global de imágenes pornográficas, sin la elaboración de nuevas variedades psicotrópicas sintéticas legales e ilegales (Lexomil, Special K, Viagra, speed, cristal, Prozac, éxtasis, popper, heroína, Omeoprazol, etc.), sin la extensión a la totalidad del planeta de una forma de arquitectura urbana difusa en la que megaciudades miseria se codean con nudos de alta concentración de capital, sin el tratamiento informático de signos y de transmisión numérica de comunicación.
Estos son solo algunos de los índices de aparición de un régimen postindustrial, global y mediático que llamaré a partir de ahora, tomando como referencia los procesos de gobierno biomolecular (fármaco-) y semiótico-técnico (-porno) de la subjetividad sexual, de los que la pildora y Playboy son paradigmáticos, «farmacopornográfico». Si bien sus líneas de fuerzas hunden sus raíces en la sociedad científica y colonial del siglo XIX, sus vectores económicos no se harán visibles hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ocultos en principio bajo la apariencia de la economía fordista y quedando expuestos únicamente tras el progresivo desmoronamiento de esta en los años setenta.
Durante el siglo XX, período en el que se lleva a cabo la materialización farmacopornográfica, la psicología, la sexología, la endocrinología han establecido su autoridad material transformando los conceptos de psiquismo, de libido, de conciencia, de feminidad y masculinidad, de heterosexualidad y homosexualidad en realidades tangibles, en sustancias químicas, en moléculas comercializables, en cuerpos, en biotipos humanos, en bienes de intercambio gestionables por las multinacionales farmacéuticas.
Si la ciencia ha alcanzado el lugar hegemónico que ocupa como discurso y como práctica en nuestra cultura, es precisamente gracias a lo que Ian Hacking, Steve Woolgar y Bruno Latour llaman su «autoridad material», es decir, su capacidad para inventar y producir artefactos vivos. Por eso la ciencia es la nueva religión de la modernidad. Porque tiene la capacidad de crear, y no simplemente de describir, la realidad. El éxito de la tecnociencia contemporánea es transformar nuestra depresión en Prozac, nuestra masculinidad en testosterona, nuestra erección en Viagra, nuestra fertilidad/ esterilidad en püdora, nuestro sida en triterapia. Sin que sea posible saber quién viene antes, si la depresión o el Prozac, si el Viagra o la erección, si la testosterona o la masculinidad, si la píldora o la maternidad, si la triterapia o el sida. Esta producción en auto-feedback es la propia del poder farmacopornográfico.”
Source: Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
“Estamos mirando la misma luna del mismo mundo. Estamos ligados a la realidad por una sola línea.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“estamos muy lejos de saberlo todo acerca de nuestro mundo y (...) aún desconocemos la mayoría de los peligros que nos acechan.”
Source: El Universo Antrópico
“Estamos persuadidos de que cualquier cambio introducido por el hombre en el equilibrio de la Naturaleza puede tener consecuencias catastróficas.”
Source: Civilizaciones extinguidas: pueblos y culturas desaparecidos
“estamos presenciando el nacimiento de una nueva era en la que se darán los cambios más profundos que le han sucedido a la Humanidad desde sus orígenes. Nuestro inminente dominio de la información nos proporcionará una tecnología tan avanzada que será indistinguible de la magia, de la misma manera que nuestras actuales bombas atómicas y los viajes espaciales les hubieran parecido magia a nuestros ancestros.”
Source: El Universo Antrópico
“Estamos rodeados de mediocres por todas partes, Carmencita.”
Source: Habla Mario
“Estamos sempre saindo de uma caverna de Platão para outra e tem gente que morre sem sair da primeira.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Estamos tan rodeados de historias sobrenaturales, de la aceptación sin problemas de lo paranormal, de la amenaza de los distintos poderes que intentan con todas sus fuerzas convencernos de la existencia de lo sobrenatural, que hasta los más firmes podemos sentirnos desfallecer.”
“Estamos todos sozinhos, presos num corpo e na nossa própria cabeça, e qualquer companhia que temos na vida é passageira e superficial.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“Estamos trancados na desgraça de nossa terra, em sua tragédia permanente mas também em nossa língua moderna que não sabe mais expressar o que sentimos.”
Source: Une heure de ferveur
“Estamos unidas para siempre por un hilo invisible, pero tan fuerte que puedo sentirlo, aquí, atado con un nudito alrededor de mi muñeca. Un extremo está atado a mi muñeca y el otro a la tuya, así que nunca nos separaremos, no importa cuál de las dos muera primero. Unidas para siempre. Inseparables.”
Source: El bosque sabe tu nombre
“Estar asomado a esta ventana, en cierto modo, es como estar en una trinchera y asomar la cabeza, esperando que aparezca el enemigo. Aquí, sin embargo, no hay enemigos. Ni amigos ni enemigos, sólo silencio y soledad.”
“Estar bem informado é pré-requisito para ser esclarecido.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading