Quotes of: World-leaders Keyword

The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do whatever you wanted -in the ads and in the articles, ignore your limitations, defy them. If you were an indecisive person, you could become a ...

Bob Dylan

Language is one of the more complex human cognitive functions,” Narly Golestani, Group Leader of the university’s Brain and Language Lab, tells me during a recent visit. “There’s been a lot of work on bilingualism. Interpretation goes one ste...

Geoff Watts

[last lines] Nachrichtensprecher: [voiceover - spoiler] The tragic outcome: two dead, three injured, among them project leader Professor Klaus Thon. Clearly, the experiment went out of control after two days. The district attorney is investigating tw...

The Experiment

Pete: Wait a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit? Ulysses Everett McGill: Well Pete, I figured it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote. Pete: Suits...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Lando Calrissian: [after seeing the Death Star is operational] Home One, this is Gold Leader. Admiral Ackbar: We saw it. All craft, prepare to retreat. Lando Calrissian: We won't get another chance at this, Admiral. Admiral Ackbar: We have no choice,...

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

General Grievous: [addressing the Separatist leaders] It won't be long before the armies of the Republic track us here. I am sending all of you to the Mustafar system in the Outer Rim. It is a volcanic planet which generates a great deal of scanning ...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Vermin: [getting off the train at Union Square] Where is everybody? Rembrandt: Looks like we're the first ones here. We're gonna hafta sit and wait... They'll show up. Vermin: Ooooo, looks like something else showed up. Cochise: Hey, hey, hey. Now lo...

The Warriors

[first lines] Paikea: In the old days, the land felt a great emptiness. It was waiting. Waiting to be filled up. Waiting for someone to love it. Waiting for a leader. [child birth scene] Paikea: And he came on the back of a whale. A man to lead a new...

Whale Rider

It is never easy for any leader to choose between differentiation and equality. You are condemned either way. When you treat everyone equally, you are considered just by majority as equality benefits below average people and they seem to always be in...

Awdhesh Singh

When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.

The Call of Cthulhu

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the dark? Do you remember the world with mothers and fathers and stillness that did not feel like death?

Clean

All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave? ~ Ayden

Counterpoint

The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.

Crime and Punishment

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.

Chance Encounters: Travel Tales from Around the World

Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

Dear John

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

A Dish of Orts

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman

Faith is like automobile insurance. It need to be in place before there's a crisis.

Examine Your Faith!: Finding Truth in a World of Lies

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto