#stern

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #stern




Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.


David Foster Wallace


#end #itself #more #per #pleasure

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.


Nigel Farage


#believes #bring #conservative #continuing #eastern

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.


James Buchan


#dominion #eternal #force #forms #god-given

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.


James Buchan


#adjusted #age #average #barrel #century

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.


Whittaker Chambers


#call #case #cast #civilization #could

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.


Kenneth Clark


#architecture #been #could #foreseen #gothic

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.


Arthur C. Clarke


#detective stories #fiction #politicians #read #science

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.


William Kingdon Clifford


#authority #buddha #consider #eastern #experience

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.


Rick Danko


#come #country #five #had #i

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.


Henry Louis Gates


#admired #age #because #black #boy