Quotes of: Political-climate Keyword

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

Werner Herzog

Many outsiders clarified that they believe Christians have a right (even an obligation) to pursue political involvement, but they disagree with our methods and our attitudes. They say we seem to be pursuing an agenda that benefits only ourselves; tha...

Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity...and Why It Matters

Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.

Traditional

Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.

The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of th...

Jitterbug Perfume

It was the very worst kind of Banbury-Road house, depressing, with laurels. The front door was opened by a slut. I had never seen a slut before but recognized the genus without difficulty as soon as I set eyes on this one.

Love in a Cold Climate

I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevices. I don't like sand at all. I don't enjoy all that sunshine and heat without the benefit of climate control.

Roxane Gay

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

Thomas Moore

There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted norms. In this kind of climate, even the mildest questions sound like heresy, and the outcome is intolerance of other peo...

Keith Harmon

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on...

Meg Whitman

I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this rig...

John Anderson

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must ...

John James Audubon

Why fantasize about what you already experience? I go to the written word for places and faces that I don't get at home. Hot people in hot climates. Sex acts I can hardly imagine. Porn is about the unachievable ... and, therefore, the inherently desi...

Belle de Jour

Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge sui...

George Hamilton

This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’ and ‘myths ’ and ‘symbols ’ and ‘social comment ’ and something unspeakab...

Vladimir Nabokov

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

Freedomâ„¢

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.

The Great Wall of Silence: The Silent Political Takeover of the United States

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller