Takovouto Quotes & Sayings

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time. — Aaron Wildavsky

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough. — Teresa Palmer

When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift. — Jeff VanVonderen

I had many reasons for writing this book but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it. And my hope is that when they finish reading the book, that they will come away with a renewed sense of pride in our culture and in who we are. We get a lot of strength from that [culture and identity] and we should be proud of it. — Sonia Sotomayor

Second, we resist love because it jams the rational mindset. The mortal mind cannot understand how miracles work, and for our entire lives we are taught to mistrust what cannot be rationally explained. Yet the fact that we cannot understand how miracles work does not mean that miracles don't happen. And while Western science argued for ages that the state of our inner being has little effect on the state of our world, even science today argues otherwise. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle reveals that as our perception of an object changes, the object itself will change. — Marianne Williamson

I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself. — Eubie Blake