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Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Paula Fox

Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world. — Paula Fox

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Sarah Dessen

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no? — Sarah Dessen

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Oscar Wilde

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. — Oscar Wilde

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Juan Trippe

How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? How can this fabulous new force in the sky fail to serve the hope of teh world and the peace of the world? — Juan Trippe

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Laurie Metcalf

Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know. — Laurie Metcalf

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Corbin Bernsen

Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there are 20 cable networks and so many ways for films to be exhibited. It's an exciting time for actors, writers, directors, and producers. — Corbin Bernsen

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Susan Sontag

To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. — Susan Sontag

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Barbara Jordan

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition. — Barbara Jordan

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Afshin Molavi

A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism. — Afshin Molavi

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Barry Unsworth

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. — Barry Unsworth

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Richard M. Weaver

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist. — Richard M. Weaver

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Reza Aslan

The choice between James's vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against Rome, and Paul's vision of a Roman religion that divorced itself from Jewish provincialism and required nothing for salvation save belief in Christ, was not a difficult one for the second and third generations of Jesus's followers to make.
Two thousand years later, the Christ of Paul's creation has utterly subsumed the Jesus of history. The memory of the revolutionary zealot who walked across Galilee gathering an army of disciples with the goal of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, the magnetic preacher who defied the authority of the Temple priesthood in Jerusalem, the radical Jewish nationalist who challenged the Roman occupation and lost, has been almost completely lost to history. — Reza Aslan

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By David McCullough

Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations ... He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would be. Truman, with his rural Missouri background, and partly too, because of the limits of his education, was inclined to see things in far simpler terms, as right or wrong, wise or foolish. He dealt little in abstractions. — David McCullough

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Cate Marvin

I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry. — Cate Marvin

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Alvin Toffler

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Andrzej Stasiuk

It is the West's provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself — Andrzej Stasiuk

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Carl Sagan

Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors. — Carl Sagan

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Molly Ivins

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric. — Molly Ivins

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By O. Henry

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness. — O. Henry

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Richmal Crompton

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn't know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day. — Richmal Crompton

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Dana Gioia

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity. — Dana Gioia

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By J. Robert Oppenheimer

The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals as well as good for his pleasure. It seems to us [scientists] that this is an opening up of the human spirit , avoiding its provincialism and narrowness. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By David Brooks

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind. — David Brooks

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By J. Allen Hynek

I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity. — J. Allen Hynek

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Andrew Pettegree

His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism. — Andrew Pettegree

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Barack Obama

He would always be like that, my grandfather, always searching for that new start, always running away from the familiar. By the time the family arrived in Hawaii, his character would have been fully formed, I think - the generosity and eagerness to please, the awkward mix of sophistication and provincialism, the rawness of emotion that could make him at once tactless and easily bruised. — Barack Obama

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By David McCullough

I feel so sorry for anyone who misses the experience of history, the horizons of history. We think little of those who, given the chance to travel, go nowhere. We deprecate provincialism. But it is possible to be as provincial in time as it is in space. Because you were born into this particular era doesn't mean it has to be the limit of your experience. Move about in time, go places. Why restrict your circle of acquaintances to only those who occupy the same stage we call the present? — David McCullough

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Yevgeny Zamyatin

N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken city of Kitezh, living at the bottom of the lake. We do not hear a thing, and the water over us is muddy and sleepy. And on the surface, way above - why, everything's in flames, and the alarms are ringing.' ("A Provincial Tale") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Jonathan Swift

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. — Jonathan Swift

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Hannah Arendt

It has already been noticed that the Nazis were not simple nationalists. Their nationalist propaganda was directed toward their fellow-travelers and not their convinced members; the latter, on the contrary, were never allowed to lose sight of a consistently supranational approach to politics. Nazi "nationalism" had more than one aspect in common with the recent nationalistic propaganda in the Soviet Union, which is also used only to feed the prejudices of the masses. The Nazis had a genuine and never revoked contempt for the narrowness of nationalism, the provincialism of the nation-state, and they repeated time and again that their "movement," international in scope like the Bolshevik movement, was more important to them than any state, which would necessarily be bound to a specific territory. And — Hannah Arendt

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Kathleen Norris

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired. — Kathleen Norris

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Eric Holder

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons. — Eric Holder

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Dave Earley

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul. — Dave Earley

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Stephen Vizinczey

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere. — Stephen Vizinczey

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sometimes a loss may be a gain, — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Patrick Kavanagh

Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient. — Patrick Kavanagh

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Mitchell Baker

When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform. — Mitchell Baker

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By David Plotz

One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once. — David Plotz

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Thomas Bernhard

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death. — Thomas Bernhard

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Edward Abbey

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true
I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia ... — Edward Abbey

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Terry McMillan

Most women are amazing. They just need to be with someone who makes it easy for them to express it. I think it's called respect. — Terry McMillan

Provincialism Is Best Quotes By Anne Sebba

You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment. — Anne Sebba