Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

bell hooks

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

Max Weber

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

Peter Cosgrove

Their legacy will indeed strengthen that ethos and foundations of that spirit.

Jane Campion

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Herbert Read

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Herbert Hoover

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Michael Foley

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Michael Stipe

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

Dale Jr

We are going to win six or seven races and be in the top three in the Chase. If we don't win the championship, it won't be by much.

Jimmy Austin

We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.

Richard Childress

We were going to keep the 3, he just wanted to see it winning races and winning championships.

Dan Wheldon

To win six races is something I'll look back on and think that was a strong season.

Ludwig von Mises

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

Baz Luhrmann

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF...

Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Charles Edward Merriam

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

Alan Watts

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Source Unknown

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Caitlin Moran

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

Bo Burnham

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Billy Higgins

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Bill Paxton

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.