Christopher Dawson Quotes

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Christopher Dawson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGoodFoodMenDieYou

Every veteran is a hero.

Joe J. Walsh

HeroEveryVeteran

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

John Astin

LifeUniverseWorthGoRightDepth

The moment our daughter was lifted up and we laid eyes on her was incredible.

Matt Lanter

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I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

Jeff Vandermeer

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It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

Siri Hustvedt

ControlThinkFallKnowIgnorant

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

Tom Perrotta

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Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem.

Tom Perez

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The teenage years are my least favorite, though my son is phenomenal. He does not get in trouble, and he's not a bad kid. But the fact that they think they know so much.

Rozonda Thomas

SonThinkBadTroubleKnowKid

As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

Moby

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If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time.

Julia Stiles

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When I first came out about my breast cancer, I didn't want to talk about it, but I had to, because young women were getting it, and people weren't understanding that.

Christina Applegate

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To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.

Peter Falk

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