Clear Quotes - page 11

It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques– all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple. (Terence McKenna)
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. View quote
George Sand
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women. View quote
Jack Nicholson
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love. View quote
Joan Crawford
Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves? View quote
Plutarch
The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street. View quote
David Hilbert
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death. View quote
Henri Bergson
We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion. View quote
Epicurus
Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet. View quote
Byron Katie
When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want. (Byron Katie)
Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light. View quote
Yasunari Kawabata
While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis. View quote
Carl Levin
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. View quote
Jacques Maritain
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. View quote
Herbert Read
They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker... View quote
Terry Pratchett
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman. (Bella Abzug)
If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality. View quote
Ugo Cavallero
The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. View quote
Milton Friedman