Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.

Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

John Adams

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

A Room with a View

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

Signatura 400

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

Sabine

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

A Step of Faith

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Notebooks 1951-1959

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.

Nature's Gifts Anthology

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

Odd Apocalypse

Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.

Over Her Dead Body

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Management Culture

That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.

Suddenly Royal

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

Rediscover Catholicism

Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.

A Woman's Worth

That has been one of the best, most rewarding things about being an actor - traveling throughout the world, meeting all kinds of different people and learning about other cultures.

Michael Ansara

I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.

Naomi Wolf

Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.

Steven Yeun

What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.

Gwynne Dyer

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Naguib Mahfouz

All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.

Nathan Reese Maher

The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

Neil Postman