Quotes of: Bertrand-russell Keyword

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Charles Sturt

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

Sylvia Earle

Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

George Bancroft

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

John Podhoretz

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

Jim Fowler

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.

Jim Fowler

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

John George Nicolay

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

Bruce Lipton

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

Kenneth R. Miller

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Douglas William Jerrold

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.

Dick Cavett

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

S. J. Perelman

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

Daniel Burnham

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

Warren Farrell

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Gilbert Highet

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

John George Nicolay