Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Chris Christie won by such a wide margin that pundits say this will give him the impetus he needs to run for… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have… — Coley Sohn Copy Share Image
Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader,… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central… — Bruce D. Porter Copy Share Image
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
