Popular Quotes - page 3

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. (Christopher Lasch)
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. View quote
Corazon Aquino
This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. View quote
Conan O'Brien
Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all. View quote
Bobby Vinton
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold. View quote
Branford Marsalis
You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game. View quote
Bernhard Langer
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. (Geraldo Rivera)
We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years. View quote
Grace Napolitano
The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. View quote
Herbert Croly
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch? View quote
Lara St. John
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. View quote
Mel Torme
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising. View quote
Roy H. Williams
Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. View quote
Stanley Crouch
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. View quote
Stanley Crouch
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. View quote
Stephen Breyer
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals. View quote
Tommy Shaw
One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects. (Mahatma Gandhi)
I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man. View quote
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
A President cannot always be popular. View quote
Harry S. Truman
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. View quote
John Lennon
My first contact with game theory was a popular article in Fortune Magazine which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter and when I studied mathematics I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it. View quote
Reinhard Selten