Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
View quotes by Carl SaganCommunists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the
long-term objects of freedom movements.
View quotes by Nelson MandelaThere are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.
View quotes by Timothy LearyThe real sin with Social Security is that it's a
long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
View quotes by Tony SnowTerm, holidays, term, holidays, til we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
View quotes by C S LewisYou shouldn't have a
long-term strategy anymore, because you won't be able to move fast enough.
View quotes by Orit GadishI've had flings with women before, though my
long-term relationships have always been with men. I was pleasantly surprised when I fell for Alice!
View quotes by Rachel WilliamsFor me there is a mission for this country moving forward - there are big
long-term decisions we've got to take as a nation.
View quotes by Gordon BrownI think he is a
long-term name. He is a very big talent. [Stewart Downing]
View quotes by Sven Goran ErikssonHave a feel for the medium and
long-term trends in the field that you are in.
View quotes by Lloyd DorfmanSocial Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its
long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear
View quotes by Bill FristThe presence of a long term and conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.
View quotes by Mary CraigI think we do need a long term settlement for political funding in this country otherwise, you know, politics costs money, and this kind of thing is going to happen again and again
View quotes by Hazel BlearsI've signed a long term contract. I think it's a six week contract, but it could be seven weeks with a win on Saturday!
View quotes by Gary MegsonIf insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved
long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elabourate courtship rituals. Love and sex do indeed go together.
View quotes by Edward O WilsonAn opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
View quotes by Maria Callas'It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.'
View quotes by Bob Geldof'some of the lines that I say on the show well I will say it or I think I know how to say it, then someone like James or someone else will come up to me and say you dont know what that means do you? For example the term walking your dog... not got a clue even my Dad knows I don't get it which is embarrassing' - Katie talking about how there are times when she doesn't know what her character's talking about!
View quotes by Katie HolmesSome people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process. (The Use of Lateral Thinking 1967)
View quotes by Edward De BonoIf anyone... seriously believes that a further exponential rise in the prison population for short-term prisoners and first-time offenders is the way to ensure our safety then they are sorely deluded.
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