Quotes of: Radical-change Keyword

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal eased but did not end the country's economic ills, a trio of leftist radicals - Sen. Huey Long of Louisiana; the Rev. Charles Coughlin, the Detroit radio priest; and Francis Townsend in California - enj...

Robert Dallek

Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, uns...

Sue Monk Kidd

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is...

Ming-Dao Deng

A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we’re struck by something. The thing is to pay attention, to be ready for radical empathy. If we empty ourselves of ourselves we’ll be able to vibrate in synchrony with something deep and powerful. ...

Roxana Robinson

Therefore, she hummed the provincial lullaby she had learned from the officers’ children in the English Quarter of Jerusalem, and watched in fascination while the savage radical’s eyes misted over with tears. For an instant, the prison bars melte...

V.S. Carnes

It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism...

Glenn Greenwald

It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet melancholy about the decay of the patriarchal trunks, which is enhanced by the green and elastic vigor of the young saplings; the no...

John Ruskin

Tevye: And until your golden day comes, Rev. Perchik, How will you live? Perchik: By giving lessons to children, Do you have any children? Tevye: I have five daughters. Perchik: [Looking to Tevye in disbelief] Five? Tevye: Daughters... Perchik: Girls...

Fiddler on the Roof

[Batty wants Tyrell to extend his lifespan] Tyrell: Would you... like to be upgraded? Batty: I had in mind something a little more radical. Tyrell: What... what seems to be the problem? Batty: Death. Tyrell: Death; ah, well that's a little out of my ...

Blade Runner

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled ho...

Ursula K. Le Guin

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

Dark Moon

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

We’re happier when the assholes are villains.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

The Flinch

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.

The Gamecocks

These young people are going to change the world.

Hitler Burns Detroit

We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.

Humbly Submitting to Change - The Wilderness Experience

Change your state of being and your experience will follow.

Being Yourself, Riding the Wave of Change

A healthy attitude is contagious; let others catch it.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life