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 LewisIf 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.
View quotes by David BlunkettThe
short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management.
View quotes by Emanuel AzenbergBut yet not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety, but rather famish them amid their plenty, making them red and pale with fresh variety, ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty! a summer´s day will seem an hour but short, being wasted in such time beguiling sport. (venus´n´adonis, poem)
View quotes by William ShakespeareAs our life is very short, so it is very miserable, and therefore it is well it is short
View quotes by Bishop Jeremy TaylorAn idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
View quotes by Sydney Harris'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 BonoThose who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-term view of everything.
View quotes by Henry BlofeldYou 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 WilliamsNarcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
View quotes by Thomas SzaszExperience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
View quotes by Thomas JeffersonDecadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
View quotes by Ernest HemingwayUnhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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