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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947

Topics

History Great Time High Act Been

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

Jenny Holzer

Myself Support People Think Helpful

A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.

John Gregory Dunne

Window Whatever Outsider Side Nose

And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.

Melissa Bean

Priorities Tax First Act Would Like

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

Matthew Lewis

School Speak Too Much Shy Class Up

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

Michael Gerber

Women Business Vision Great Decision

I stayed in Miami and New York until I was about nine, and then we moved to India and stayed there for about four years and eventually moved to Berlin. It was definitely a cultural experience in its fullest, and I absorbed a lot. I don't regret any of it.

Amber Mark

Experience New York Regret Miami New

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

Steve McFadden

Theatre Tools Skills Same Whatever

Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

Ritchie Blackmore

Brilliant He

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

Martin Scorsese

Good Time New York City Research

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

Martin Sheen

Yourself Golf You Play Will Tell

As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

Lou Gramm

I Am Believe Think Long I Believe

I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.

Donna Karan

Feel Back Important Need Get Scale