Christopher Dawson Quotes

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

Christopher Dawson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 12, 1889 - May 25, 1970

Topics

ControlStrongEnoughNationalism

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

Joely Fisher

CollegeMeWeirdFinishAlumni

The transition from unknown to known-in-publishing has been empowering but also challenging. It's an honor to know that people actually want to know what I think about certain issues, but I also have to be careful about what I say or, rather, how I say it. The Internet is forever, y'all.

Angie Thomas

PeopleThinkInternetHonorKnow

Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

Angus Young

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'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.

Steve Kazee

AmazingMeThinkWantKidPretend

All of the reality TV I've done has usually been simultaneously an opportunity to create awareness or raise funds for my mom's breast cancer organization.

Stephen Baldwin

OpportunityMomOrganizationReality

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

Tomi Adeyemi

BookSayPublishWriterDidLeast

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

Tony Curtis

AgeExperiencesMuchHad

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

Tom Selleck

GoodAdviceYouAlwaysLittleGet

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Robin Morgan

TimeMenLieRestOppressedThing

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Rutherford B. Hayes

NatureSoulBelieveHuman NatureSay

My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

Mary Roach

MedicalSearchInternetChainsBegin

Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.

Michelle Dean

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