Obdurate Def Quotes & Sayings

We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual. We must make clear in what respects our epoch differs from others and in what respects it is similar. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else. — Gregory Bateson

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us. — Seal

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.' — Elaine Stritch

I believe that in the process of locating new avenues of creative thought, we will also arrive at an existential conservatism. It is worth asking repeatedly: Where are our deepest roots? We are, it seems, Old World, catarrhine primates, brilliant emergent animals, defined genetically by our unique origins, blessed by our newfound biological genius, and secure in our homeland if we wish to make it so. What does it all mean? This is what it all means: To the extent that we depend on prosthetic devices to keep ourselves and the biosphere alive, we will render everything fragile. To the extent that we banish the rest of life, we will impoverish our own species for all time. And if we should surrender our genetic nature to machine-aided ratiocination, and our ethics and art and our very meaning to a habit of careless discursion in the name of progress, imagining ourselves godlike and absolved from our ancient heritage, we will become nothing. — Edward O. Wilson

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and ... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy. — Gustav Freytag

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ... — Plato

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. — Leopold Von Ranke

I believe in you. That is enough. — Dan Alatorre