Society 1989 Quotes & Sayings

We are not an assimilative, homogeneous society, but a facilitative, pluralistic one, in which we must be willing to abide someone else's unfamiliar or even repellant practice because the same tolerant impulse protects our own idiosyncrasies.
--Michael H. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989) — William J. Brennan Jr.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different. — Roger Moore

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret. — John Assaraf

In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language. — Harry Markowitz

It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence. — Naomi Klein

I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up. — Abbey Clancy

All came from, and will goe to others. — George Herbert

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. — Orson Welles

Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination — LDarnell

One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc. — Noam Chomsky

Psephology isn't a hate crime. — Ken Livingstone

Give yourself time just to be with yourself. — Maya Angelou

You are brave and strong and good, noble and kind. I love you and I think you're ... — Melanie Dickerson

If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right. — Lynne Olson

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday. — Maya Angelou

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. — Berenice Abbott

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act. — Gretchen Rubin

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment. — Simon Newcomb

You have the optimism of a child. (Julian)
Peter Pan all the way. (Grace) — Sherrilyn Kenyon