Cultural Diversity Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology. — Donald T. Regan

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump. — Matt Taibbi

Thought is really the most mischievous thing in life, the greatest criminal. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink. — Lisa Alther

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name. — Mandy Moore

There are three way of courting ruin
women, gambling, and calling in technicians. — Georges Pompidou

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges. — Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine. — Gideon Glick

Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established — Gautama Buddha

The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart - the difference between theory and experience. — Martin Esslin

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse. — Frederick Lenz

Thinking remembering how his uncle had said that all man had was time, all that stood between him and the death he feared and abhorred was time yet he spent half of it inventing ways of getting the other half past: — William Faulkner

I want to be near the ocean, Lincoln, the ocean! I want to feel the tides. And i want mountains, too, at least one mountain. Is that too much to ask? And trees. Not a whole forest, necessarily. I'd settle for a thicket. Scenery. I want scenery! — Rainbow Rowell

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China. — Jeff Goodell