Brave New World Chapter 14 15 Quotes & Sayings

The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings. — Mekhi Phifer

At first the people in the town were frightened; they knew Shadrack was crazy but that did not mean that he didn't have any sense or, even more important, that he had no power. [ ... ] Once the people understood the boundaries and nature of his madness, they could fit him, so to speak, into the scheme of things. — Toni Morrison

At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do. — Charles R. Schwab

What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force. — Thomas Jefferson

If you stick with the definition of spirituality as a peaceful internal state (a.k.a. deep, dreamless sleep while awake), then you will ignore some of the hallucinatory experiences that are bound to happen when you sit in silence (studies have shown that, in such circumstances, the mind often creates elaborate experiences and stories that are reminiscent of dreams) and refrain from interpreting them as something otherworldly. — Gudjon Bergmann

Books come from within. — Kevin Henkes

One good friend is better than a thousand questionable ones. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete. — David Lagercrantz

You see, Marriage is like a Coffin, and each Kid is another Nail. — Matt Groening

Man's unconscious ... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning. — Carl Jung

In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor. — Ally Carter

I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone. — Mother Teresa

In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right. — Paul Mellon