Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

JusticeBadCitizenRightForce

I kissed Madonna a few times.

Megan Dodds

MadonnaFewKissedTimes

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

John Irving

BusinessThinkBetterYouSkin

I just don't like mutual funds. I think they're a rip-off.

Robert Kiyosaki

ThinkMutual FundsJustLikeI Think

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

CountryImportantShowPortugalOur

When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

Jeff Garlin

RomanticCareComedyTryingYouBad

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

Michael Bloomberg

TodayAmericaRiskReasonHighMany

Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct.

Siri Hustvedt

TimeDeathMindEmbraceUnderstand

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Tony Curtis

WifeWomanEnoughDeadOldCaught

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

Roxane Gay

CuriousWritingReadingStopOver

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Joyce Carol Oates

New YorkEnjoyNewReviewBooks

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

Jonathan Ive

DesignYouNewReasonSomething

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

Clementa C. Pinckney

CulturePeopleAmericaUniquePlace

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