W W Rostow Quotes & Sayings

I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings. — Dylan Lauren

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it. — Walt Whitman Rostow

He took a fine fresh fig from his pocket and washed it meticulously in a glass of water; then he peeled it open before our eyes. Inside, the beautiful fig was crawling with maggots. The imam concluded his lesson by saying, 'It's not a question of washing your bodies, but your souls, young men. If you're rotten inside, neither rivers nor oceans will suffice to make you clean. — Yasmina Khadra

Only the nerds will save the earth. — John Hodgman

And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic! — Ruth Ozeki

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. — George Herbert

That what is agreed to be done, must be considered as done. — Philip Yorke, 1st Earl Of Hardwicke

He imagined the tailor as a young man and his journey here, crossing an ocean on a slow-moving ship as he himself did. He wondered whether Kiyoshi had been wearing a uniform. Whether there had been a family and where they were. What the man had fled from, if he had fled at all. What the man had let go of and whether it was possible to regain anything, to search and find it once more. Whether there was someone far from here who remembered him. — Paul Yoon

I see light at the end of the tunnel. — Walt Whitman Rostow

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice.
"Only the important ones. — Christine Feehan

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest. — Arsene Wenger

And her eyes. I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman's eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me. — David Foster Wallace

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. — James Truslow Adams

In love and faith
I just have to believe — Kevin Brooks

The qualifications that I have to speak on world affairs are exactly the same ones Henry Kissinger has, and Walt Rostow has, or anybody in the Political Science Department, professional historians - none, none that you don't have. The only difference is, I don't pretend to have qualifications, nor do I pretend that qualifications are needed. I mean, if somebody were to ask me to give a talk on quantum physics, I'd refuse - because I don't understand enough. But world affairs are trivial: there's nothing in the social sciences or history or whatever that is beyond the intellectual capacities of an ordinary fifteen-year-old. You have to do a little work, you have to do some reading, you have to be able to think but there's nothing deep - if there are any theories around that require some special kind of training to understand, then they've been kept a carefully guarded secret. — Noam Chomsky

It is in the American interest to put an end to Nationhood. That is the goal in global government. America must get out of the United Nations or our sovereign Republic will not survive. — Walt Whitman Rostow

As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once underdeveloped, ever managed to develop By Rostow's stages. Is that why Rostow is now trying to help the people of Vietnam, the Congo, the Dominican Republic, and other underdeveloped countries to overcome the empirical, theoretical, and policy shortcomings of his manifestly non-communist intellectual aid to economic development and cultural change by bombs, napalm, chemical and biological weapons, and military occupation? — Andre Gunder Frank

If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food. — Karen Salmansohn