“I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed so sad to me that - I really believe they loved each other and had a great deal of affection - but because of that early hurt in their marriage, there was a certain kind of distance from then on, until their deaths actually. So at times, I just wanted to push them together and say, "Come on, you guys! I know you love each other. This is crazy!"” ThinkingKnowsBelieveKindImportantWantedTogetherGuyCertainHurtDealsCrazyImportant ThingsDistanceAffectionVariousLove Each OtherFranklinEleanorSo Sad Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.” AmericaSpeakVoiceCommonVariousFascismVergeAnti-american Author:Lee Klein
“You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.” LooksLongSeemsMovingOrderNaturalMiddlePeriodsConflictBehaviorShadowAreasDestructionCalmVariousBritishEastHopefulEmpiresMiddle EastAsiaAnticipateBritish EmpireNatural OrderLong Shadows Author:Roma Tearne
“I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming that it's all a natural process and there's no design in it. Because your public persona is designed, to a certain extent, and you can have fun and profit at various times doing that.” ThinkingWayWritingPersonsPlayCertainFunProcessNaturalDesignAssumingProfitVariousHaving FunWorthwhilePersona Author:Tony Kushner
“The color red is symbolic of passion and action, so this Vajrayogini, as she's called, comes with a mantra and she comes with these various weapons and accouterments that are all symbolic of the kind of activity that this principle, as it were, this psychological principle, does or activates in the world. And there's text and mantra as well.” WorldWellsKindDoeActionPassionPrinciplesColorActivityWeaponsRedVariousPsychologicalSymbolicMantrasActivateColor Red Author:Anne Waldman
“Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.” KnowsWorldWayWritingKindLittlesSometimesPlayDreamMovingImaginationCuttingObjectsPaintingAdventureLonelyStrategyVariousExperimentsMuseumsVehicleFoldsAncestryAssignmentsJuxtaposition Author:Anne Waldman
“These terrible terrorism acts occur because of political situations and injustice in various parts of the world. The Middle East is heavy with injustice. After September 11,George W.Bush announced that he had always had a vision of a Palestinian state. Why didn't he tell us that before September 11, when it would have been a bit more impressive?” WorldPoliticalSituationVisionTerribleInjusticeVariousTerrorismPalestinianSeptemberImpressiveSeptember 11 Author:Robert Fisk
“Donald Trump is as decisive as anybody I've ever met. I just don't see him running around asking various people in his inner circle, "What do you think I ought to do here?" I think he knows what he wants to do, and he seeks support for it or talks to people that oppose him and he may listen to them. But I don't think he's indecisive at all.” PeopleThinkingRunningSupportVariousIndecisive Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.” IntegrityRepublicanIntellectualArgumentShameVariousEmbarrassment Author:Jay Rockefeller
“The first idea of Captain Fantastic was a pretty radically different one. The genesis had to do with parenting and questions about parenthood and fatherhood specifically. I have two kids and I was grappling with what my values were and what I wanted to pass to my children. So I was positing different kinds of parents and different ways of parenting. I played with various ideas - very permissive parenting, very restrictive parenting and then I came up with the character of Viggo Mortensen, and much of it was aspirational, some of it was autobiographical.” KindChildrenDifferentCharacterKidsValuesParentVariousFantasticMy ChildrenParenthoodDifferent KindsFatherhoodGenesis Author:Matt Ross
“Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G. Welles said "I'm terribly sorry I've missed the last five meetings, I've been terribly busy, I'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and I've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and I've had a bit of personal trouble, and I had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." Shaw leapt up and said, "I've not missed one meeting, and I have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. If it were easy they'd all be at it.” WorldWritingEasyDifficultNovelTroubleScience FictionMeetingsSorryBusyVarious Author:Peter O'Toole
“One of the things I'm most proud of that we've done here at WFMU - after various failed attempts - is to create a really healthy online community that feeds into the physical real-world community. It's spawned meet-ups in other cities. People even get married - they meet online from these chats that accompany every single program and are a really big part of what we do.” PeopleDoneCommunityProudHealthyMarriedProgramVariousOnline Author:Ken Freedman
“You can't bullet-point Trump's political beliefs because he doesn't have them. He's got various things he wants, needs, wants to accomplish, based on circumstances at the moment, not based on a philosophy. Now, there's a foundation. The foundation for Donald Trump is "Make America Great Again." It's the greatest place on earth and we're gonna build it back up and it's gonna be the greatest no matter what, compared to whoever, it's gonna be the greatest. So, I mean, you can say that. But that's not a political philosophy. That's an objective or a series of goals.” MeanPhilosophyMomentsEarthPoliticalBeliefGoalCircumstancesVariousAccomplishPolitical Philosophy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We have no proper understanding of the relationship between conscious thought and conscious sensation. The various forms of thought and sensation are underpinned by very different neural mechanisms; so how can the neural correlate of their conscious natures be the same? I don't think we are yet in a position to make such speculations. To make progress, we have to have a good conception of the phenomenology of consciousness, among other things.” ThinkingDifferentUnderstandingConsciousnessProgressConsciousVariousSpeculation Author:Tim Crane
“My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?" There's always a good vampire now, but do any of them sleep in coffins? And I would bring her down to my library and say, "Here's every classic vampire literature. There are coffins, there's this, there's that," you know? "When you get to the YA stuff, you may try some of this stuff just to see where it came from."” TryingReadingLiteratureSleepDaughterLibraryYoung AdultVariousVampireClassicMy Daughter Author:Mike Mignola
“My view of ethics and of its priority is connected to my view that we are fundamentally relational beings - both the product of human interactions, as well as committed as part of the expression of our own humanity to various social involvements. I see ethics as having two places in the maintenance of these relational activities - first as providing the basic coinage of our interactions qua humans and second as mediating the various roles we assume as humans.” HumanityEthicsAssumingCommittedVariousPrioritiesInvolvement Author:John Kleinig
“The various roles we incorporate into the criminal justice system as well as the ways in which we construe such roles, lend themselves to the kind of ethical reflection that is open to us all. That said, once we have determined roles and their contours, those who act within them may have special duties and privileges that others may lack. Specific roles may generate ethical inquiries with novel forms, just as new technologies may push us in new directions.” KindJusticeTechnologyNovelSpecialDutyReflectionVariousDeterminedEthicalNew TechnologyJustice SystemCriminal Justice Author:John Kleinig
“I should mention that I took piano lessons beginning when I was four. My mother was my first teacher, and it was a wonderful way to bond with her. She was a terrific supporter of my musical career. I knew I wanted to be in music since I began lessons, and I enjoy the various facets that my career has led me.” MotherEnjoyTeacherWonderfulMusicalVariousSupporter Author:Barbara Harbach
“I've always liked the old-school journalism approach. I don't have to take a side on any controversial issue. I get to present various sides. And my goal, as a journalist covering the Bible beat, is to present the strengths and weaknesses of each side - to the extent that readers can't tell what my opinion is. That's easy enough for me to do much of the time because I'm as confused as the next guy, and trusting a lot on Jesus for what I don't understand.” EnoughGuyJesusEasyGoalOpinionWeaknessVariousJournalismJournalistConfusedControversial Author:Stephen M. Miller
“Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.” WorldWritingReasonDoneDarkAbuseIllnessVariousNightmareExploringSubconscious Author:Nick Cave
“You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this.” ThinkingDifferentRepublicanElectionDemocratVariousEducatedPresidentialJunglePresidential Election Author:Frank Bruni
“Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover an issue you are at least encouraging people to think about all the possibilities and if you're not covering political reform, electoral reform, you can write stories about them that don't say we must do this but just educate people on the fact that there are various advocates who are tugging us in that direction, that can present the arguments of those advocates, and I do think that's an issue we for some reason completely turned away from.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingReasonPoliticalPossibilityArgumentVariousEducate Author:Frank Bruni
“You're not directing an actor toward a thing they can't achieve. Because direction is elusive. When directors hold respect for the various craftsmen and -women who are telling the story, it's the greatest result. I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas.” PeopleThinkingAchieveVariousCanvasElusive Author:Laura Dern
“When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.” KindSometimesActionInterestMilitaryDirectThreatVariousHookPersuasive Author:Barack Obama
“Take a look at the number of Bibles on your shelf. Think how grateful you are for the help you've received from various Bible translations and editions over the years.” ThinkingHelpingGratefulVariousTranslations Author:Martin Manser
“Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all film or all digital. But that being said, the old way of graining in the camera, now you can make changes like a painter. It's dangerous because you can ruin the film, you can over-fiddle. We've all seen films and gone 'what the hell is that?'” FilmHellDangerousVariousPainterGrainMaking Changes Author:Peter Weir
“Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese, Russians, Communists, Northern Koreans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Taliban, and both northerners and southerners in America are some of the people we've been encouraged at various times to call enemies and to hate. The list is long, and as time passes, those we were assigned to hate we later were told should be removed from our hate list. The enemy is obviously hatred itself. Have empathy for your assigned enemy.” PeopleLongHateEnemyEmpathyHatredVariousCommunistKoreanTalibanTime PassesSoutherner Author:Wayne Dyer
“Some believe that to be authentic, you have to present yourself the same way in every situation. At first thought, this notion seems reasonable, but when you really think about it - not so much. The way you interact with your boss is not the same way you need to interact with your family, peers, team members, or clients. It is not only okay to present yourself differently in various situations but crucial to being perceived as authentic.” ThinkingBelieveSituationTeamOkayVariousOur FamilyBoss Author:Chip Espinoza
“On the information technology side, health care is still behind other industries. There needs to be a real push to create better electronic health records, more inter-operability amongst various types of electronic systems and cybersecurity is becoming a huge deal in in health care. Health care records are highly sought after by virtue of the fact that not only do you have somebody's person financial information, you also have their person medical information.” RealCareTechnologyVirtueFinancialVariousMedicalHealth CareInformation Technology Author:Maria Bartiromo
“After 9/11, the American Red Cross received more than half a billion dollars in donations to help the victims of the terrorist attacks. The families of the victims were already well-provided for by various government funds, so Red Cross simply drew a line across lower Manhattan and offered everyone there financial assistance, whether they needed it or not.” HelpingVictimFinancialVariousTerroristFundDonation Author:Peter Singer
“India is one of the youngest startup nations in the world, and so far, various technology startups have witnessed phenomenal growth. It's amazing how these startups are thriving solely based on domestic demands. It speaks volumes about India's economy and its rich talent pool.” WorldSpeakGrowthTechnologyEconomyRichTalentVariousPoolPhenomenal Author:Bhavin Turakhia
“We see and realise that the political situation in the United States is influenced by those who have lost the elections but refuse to accept their defeat, and who continue to use the anti-Russia card and various allegations most actively in the political infighting. This is why we are in no hurry, we are ready to wait, yet we strongly hope that Russian-US relations will become normal again sometime in the future.” PoliticalWaitingSituationAcceptingRelationElectionDefeatVariousRealising Author:Vladimir Putin
“I truly do believe that President Trump making decisions to pause our various immigration programs and refugee programs for a period of time so that we can ensure that there are new safeguards in place.” BelievePresidentDecisionProgramVariousImmigrationRefugee Author:Mike Pence
“What I'm talking about is pre-suasion, directing their minds to the moment before they experience the content. There's this interesting study. A guy goes to a shopping mall in France. And he tries to get women's phone numbers as they pass various shops, so he could call for a date. But in neither of those cases was he very successful. He only got a number 13 percent of the time. But there was one kind of shop that doubled his success rate when women were passing it, a flower shop. Why? Because flowers put women in the mind-set of romance.” TryingMindKindMomentsRomanceGuyInterestingStudySuccessfulFlowerRateVarious Author:Robert Cialdini
“I traveled around America and then at nineteen, went to Europe and hitchhiked from London to the Himalayas in India. I studied various forms of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and in India, various forms of Buddhism and Hinduism. Eventually, I came to the path of unconditional love and devotion to the one God, who in our tradition we call Krishna. I met my guru and became a swami. This allowed me to share that gift, which I consider to be a very deep universal expression of compassion.” CompassionChristianityPathShareBuddhismTraditionIslamVariousDevotionUnconditional LoveHinduismJudaismUnconditionalGuruKrishnaVery Deep Author:Radhanath Swami
“I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Did he mean that philosophy could change the world, or that philosophers should turn to the higher priority of changing the world? If the former, then he presumably meant philosophy in a broad sense of the term, including analysis of the social order and ideas about why it should be changed, and how. In that broad sense, philosophy can play a role, indeed an essential role, in changing the world.” WorldMindMeanPhilosophyTermChangedPhilosopherVariousPrioritiesNot SureChanging The World Author:Noam Chomsky
“You can bring together the body's various systems to fine tune the body and mind in order to navigate life's ups and downs in a way that minimizes stress and maximizes well-being and satisfaction.” MindTogetherStressVariousMind And BodyUps & Downs Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn
“I can't imagine here would be a Chinese Gorbachev. But the party will gradually open up. For instance, it has already set a time limit for political reforms in Hong Kong. And in four years time, there won't be a strongman to name the General Secretary at the party congress. That means that the various factions will have to develop better rules for naming their leader. But there won't be a timeline for political reform.” MeanPoliticalPartyLeaderImagineVariousChineseSecretary Author:Liu Xiaobo
“I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have a fairly cynical perspective on what elite institutions - and the privileges they embody - represent in America.” KindDifferentTeachingCollegePerspectiveVariousCynical Author:Jess Row
“We all live in a world where we can go to a funeral in the morning and go to a wedding in the evening and we survive it. It's the way the world is built, especially when you look at the various people surrounding the Mediterranean way of life.” PeopleWorldMorningVariousFuneral Author:Eran Riklis
“When you lose the story that's running like a golden stream underneath all the other stories, you're left with the idea that the Bible is a collection of random-seeming stories about various Bible characters that we're supposed to learn lessons from - almost like an Aesop's Fables. And a book of rules that God wants us to keep so he will love us. And we lose the glorious truth of the Bible that we were loved before even the beginning of time. That God had a plan. That no matter what, he would never stop loving us.” BookCharacterRunningVariousGloriousWant U Author:Sally Lloyd-Jones
“I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media as form. It might grow out of philosophical aesthetics or the study of literature and visual art, but the various strands of media theory converge in treating all of those as subsets of the study of media as form.” ArtLiteratureStudyStudentsPhilosophicalVariousVisual Art Author:McKenzie Wark
“I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the publishing industry toward novels and away from short stories. They're seen as D.O.A. in the marketplace, which seems nuts to me, given that various collections done smashingly and deservedly well in economic terms.” WritingLongDoneTermNovelEconomicIncrediblesVariousShort StoryPublishingBias Author:Steve Almond
“If one looks at the history of India after independence in 1947, for the first 30 to 40 years I think we were effectively given up as a basket case because we made various attempts through socialism to effectively alleviate poverty and keep growing but that model didn't work. So even when the pre-90s when we spoke to foreign corporation of foreign businessmen who wanted to do business with us, we were always a land of opportunity but an opportunity whose time have not yet come.” ThinkingOpportunityPovertyIndependenceVariousSocialismBusinessman Author:Cyril Shroff
“You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between various modes of storytelling. Diversity generates need for conversation, conversation generates common interests, as well as differences. Literature, as a human project, is all about that.” LiteratureInterestCommonDiversityVariousStorytelling Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Various "wars on drugs" throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration, mass surveillance, ethnic cleansing, population control.” WarDrugVariousPretenseWar On DrugsIncarceration Author:Kool A.D.
“I think that there has been a long and storied history in America of left-wing movements being actively, systematically, violently destroyed, disrupted, infiltrated, sabotaged, etc. by the U.S. government and its various intelligence agencies and that remains a greater challenge to their existence, traction, popularity, etc. than any sort of ideological infighting.” ThinkingLongChallengesExistenceVariousPopularityIdeological Author:Kool A.D.
“To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.” BelieveI BelieveEmotionBrainComfortTrainingVariousZonePhenomenonUnusualComfort Zone Author:Berit Brogaard
“I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic function, but the more comfortable I've become and the more imaginative and sophisticated and the more exploratory I've become at the medium, the more I've subtly deviated away from that in various ways.” ThinkingVariousMotivatedSophisticatedImaginative Author:Mike Leigh
“If you're passionate about life, and you love what you do, you learn how to organize yourself and switch your various sides on and off.” PassionateVariousOrganize Author:Dhani Jones