#non

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #non




All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.


Christopher McCandless


#means #personal #personal relationship #phenomenon #relationship

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.


Chris Guillebeau


#non-conformist #uplifting #art

Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite.


Teresa Odendahl


#clinton #hegemony #non-profit #philanthropy #power-elite

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.


Olivier Messiaen


#cities #colors #dwell #give #heard

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.


Arthur Miller


#case #get #gets #his #live

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.


Anthony Minghella


#appetite #cold #english #hollywood #mountain

This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.


Ruth Ann Minner


#agreeing #among #clearly #differ #games

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.


Maria Montessori


#capacity #derive #desire #feel #her

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.


Rick Moody


#i #like #material #nonfiction #really

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.


Jan Morris


#beirut #impossible #perhaps #phenomenon #quite