Desolador Sinonimo Quotes & Sayings

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. — Edward Abbey

1. Institutions shape politics. The rules and standard operating procedures that make up institutions leave their imprint on political outcomes by structuring political behavior. Outcomes are not simply reducible to the billiard-ball interaction of individuals nor to the intersection of broad social forces. Institutions influence outcomes because they shape actors' identities, power, and strategies. 2. Institutions are shaped by history. Whatever other factors may affect their form, institutions have inertia and "robustness." They therefore embody historical trajectories and turning points. History matters because it is "path dependent": what comes first (even if it was in some sense "accidental") conditions what comes later. Individuals may "choose" their institutions, but they do not choose them under circumstances of their own making, and their choices in turn influence the rules within which their successors choose. — Robert D. Putnam

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book. — Ben Hecht

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs. — Tom Marino

I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured. — Neil Gaiman

Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life. — Talal Asad

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature. — Charles Eastman

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India. — P. Chidambaram

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern. — Saint Basil

Anonymity, he thought, is seductive. — John Katzenbach

It's easy to think the minefield wasn't that bad once you're safely watching other people get blown up. — Liane Moriarty

Learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations. — Gilbert Burnet

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. — Peter Gallagher

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause? — Thomas Watson