“In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.” PeopleYearsFirstsWarAmericaFashionPeriodsCostEuropeJewIsraelErasPostsSpiteSouthernEasternUkraineUnprecedentedPolandPost WarSouthern Africa Author:Denis Fahey
“I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.” WellsLittlesWarCountryWantedPiecesPeriodsPostsGermanyLittle TimePost War Author:Stephen Daldry
“I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.” ThinkingKnowsImportantCountryAbleSupportSecurityFiguresPeriodsPostsBordersSeptemberSeptember 11th Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.” QualityMeditationPeriodsMindfulnessIllusionPostsAmusing Author:Richard Gere
“The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.” WarCountryKnownPeriodsPostsGentlemanBankruptcyPost War Author:Denis Healey
“Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes.” KnowsMenSexSadnessPaintingMonthsPeriodsPostsFinishingHaving SexOld SayingElation Author:Tim Zuck
“What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?” GovernmentOrderPoorPowerfulPeriodsPatientReputationPostsPhysiciansFurnitureLampsPublicityDazzleConcorde Author:Honore de Balzac
“Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.” WorldYearsHumansLyingPurposeHumanityThis WorldPeriodsTerribleCreaturesOfficePaperMassLettersStoresFavorsChristmasCardsPostsShopsBrownStringsNervesOccupationStampsAmusementPursesSuspendedPurgatoryPost OfficeFortnightMidwinter Author:Rose Macaulay
“In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered.” WayBelieveMovingI BelieveTermPeriodsFunctionHistoricalCeasePosts Author:Mark Pesce
“One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.” StatesReasonUnitedUnited StatesCenturyPeriodsDecidedGreenUnionsBritishCardsPostsQuartersSeptemberCitizenshipEuropean UnionIdentificationPassportsSeptember 11thGreen CardAmerican Citizenship Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.” ThinkingWayWritingShowsTogetherPeriodsHappeningsAdvantageProductionsSpeedPostsGutsPost Production Author:Will Forte
“The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.” WorldSidesIssuesDevelopmentPeriodsCrisisPosts Author:Jeffrey Sachs
“My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.” KnowsFeelingsRunningTodayFieldsGrewPeriodsEuropePostsUsaGutsTrendsGut FeelingsModernization Author:Charles Stross
“What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.” IfsBookWarInterestingPeriodsPostsNarrativeBooks And MoviesPost War Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld
“Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.” GonePeriodsClaimsFaultsPostsMentalityOrthodoxy Author:George Ayittey
“We are in a period called post. In previous periods, anti-Semitism was always direct. Today's anti-Semitism isn't direct. If you say today that the Jews are absolute evil, or Israel is absolute evil, you must say Israeli is committing genocide against the Palestinians. It is very rare to find a Western politician who repeats these things.” IfsTodayEvilPeriodsPoliticianDirectAbsolutesWesternJewIsraelPostsRepeatsGenocidePalestinianIsraeliAnti Semitism Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld
“To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.” PeopleYearsHas BeensWarRealLastsPoliticalPartyPeriodsRepublicanTragedyPostsDecentRepublican PartyFundamentalistGreat TragedyPost WarGood Political Author:Alec Baldwin
“Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.” KnowsMadeHappensLostStuffHappenedReturnAmountPeriodsManagementEnvyMade ItPostsFirmCapitalistVentureMediocreHarvardOrthodoxyYaleMoney ManagementVenture CapitalVenture Capitalists Author:Charlie Munger
“The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males.” StatesTodayBlackUnitedUnited StatesPeriodsMassHappeningsMalesPostsReconstructionIncarcerationMass IncarcerationBlack LivesBlack Males Author:Noam Chomsky
“In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.” ThinkingWarEnvironmentWallColdPeriodsPostsEtcMentalityCold WarReflectingPost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.” WellsHas BeensWarCulturePeriodsEuropePostsDirtyAmerican CulturePost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.” RealLevelsPeriodsPostsMarxistMao Author:Paul Sweezy
“If you look back historically at the post-WWII period on average, if you get a 100-basis-point increase in Fed funds, the spillover to the ten-year is only 35 basis points, and 25 basis points into the 30-year - it's a fairly small spillover effect.” IfsYearsLooksEffectsPeriodsTenBasesIncreaseAveragePostsFundFedsWwii Author:Gary Shilling
“Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.” WellsWarArtistModernPeriodsPostsPost WarExistentialist Author:Tilda Swinton
“I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had much to say in this context. Living with your family changes you, for the better, and that would be the reason for the accelerated growth in the post-prison period, so to say.” ThinkingWorldReasonWould BeGrowthModernPeriodsMovedPrisonPostsOur FamilyModern World Author:Varg Vikernes