Cultures should not be like water that dissolves them evenly, but like colours that stand out distinctly.
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.
...Newspapers, popular fiction, and magazines churned out words by the million, and the worn coins of everyday speech were less and less able to communicate anything more than the most commonplace meanings....
Being positive all the time is such a catchy idea, and it’s easy to preach. I guess that’s why it is popular. But life reveals itself in successions of up’s and down’s and if you plan to be positive all the time you will definitely fail.
It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.
One popular saying was, "The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit.
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to q...
By popular demand a king had been appointed, but if Israel thought that he would solve all their problems by leading them to conquests without reference to God's law, they were quite wrong.
A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.
If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.
You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.
