Quotes of: Statue-of-liberty Keyword

Narrator: Do you want me to deprioritize my current reports until you advise me of a status upgrade? Richard Chesler: Yes. Make these your primary action items.

Fight Club

James Bond: [to Goldfinger, after Oddjob has just decapitated a statue at the golf club] Remarkable... but what does the club secretary have to say? Auric Goldfinger: Oh, nothing, Mr. Bond... I own the club.

Goldfinger

Grimsby: Happy Birthday, Eric! [Reveals a statue of Prince Eric, Max growls at it] Prince Eric: Uh, gee Grim. It's it's really something! Grimsby: Yes, I commissioned it myself.

The Little Mermaid

[Bond stares at the porcelain bulldog statue on M's desk] James Bond: The whole office goes up in smoke and that bloody thing survives. M: Your interior decorating tips have always been appreciated, 007.

Skyfall

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Chuck Palahniuk

Gene Kranz: Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good? [pause] Sy Liebergot: I'll get back to you, Gene.

Apollo 13

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world...

Anthony Holden

The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.

Adolf Loos

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

Arundhati Roy

As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward dominant values and noncompliance with the status quo creates alternative, counte...

Love

If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

Zac Goldsmith

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

On Christian Liberty

The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.

A Clockwork Orange

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.

The Duke's Children

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

Homage to Catalonia

When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties,

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant

Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.

Anarchism

Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty!

Aforismi geniali di William Shakespeare.

Perfect Liberty follows no rules, law, or any virtue for that matter. It disregards respect, courteousness, and love.

The Seven - The Key of Credence

[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

The Social Contract