Top 25 Nations Quotes of 407 - Page 4

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Life, Time, Two Nations

Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

Only a more savage nation can survive.

Savages, Nations

"SAVAGE TALK / A former herbalist has remade himself into the vitriol-spewing king of the Bay Area's afternoon drive time". Interview with Dan Fost, www.sfgate.com. February 6, 2003.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

Jacque Fresco

War, Differences, Nations

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Benjamin Disraeli

England, Shopkeepers, Nations

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

It will take a nation of millions to hold me back.

Tim Howard

Hold Me, Nations, Millions

Tim Howard (2014). “The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers' Edition”, p.4, Harper Collins

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

Nelson Mandela

Violence, Nations

Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

Marc Maron

Funny, Humor, Hallucinations

The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity

Irving Fisher

Prosperity, Nations

Make disciples of all the nations in my Name.

Eusebius

Names, Disciple, Nations

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Edmund Burke

Education, Defense, Nations

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

Andrew Marvell

Two Nations, World, Bears

Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.91

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

Ambrose Bierce

Agency, Civilized Nations, Might

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.102, University of Georgia Press

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

Aleister Crowley

Hallucinations, Lord, Abyss

Aleister Crowley (1986). “Book of Lies”, Weiser Books

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Two Nations, Class, People

'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 8

Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.

Rosalynn Carter

Volunteer, Soul, Nations

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

Fidel Castro

Government, People, Nations

Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

Eckhart Tolle

Book, Insane, Hallucinations

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Men, Mediocre, Nations

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

Eric Sevareid

People, Knows, Nations

When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.

Abdul Kalam

Mother, Happy Family, Nations

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

Olaf Stapledon

Hate, Foreigners, Nations

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

Haile Selassie

Men, Aspiration, United Nations

Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

Emeli Sande

Tongue, Biting, Nations

Song: Read All About It

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

Brian Wilson

Voice, Afternoon, Hallucinations

"This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2008.