Peter Abrahams Quotes

Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?

Peter Abrahams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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ProgressSimplicityThoughtHumanity

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

Jet Li

HopeCulturePeopleThinkWantTalk

I don't want The Flash to become a vigilante. I don't want him to abuse the power.

John Wesley Shipp

PowerWantBecomeHimAbuseFlash

I've always wanted two kids. I've always wanted a girl and a boy.

Ana Ortiz

GirlBoyTwoAlwaysKidsWanted

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

Steve Fossett

BusyDistanceNeverBeenBooksMade

My mum is the biggest Joni Mitchell fan, and my dad loves Neil Young.

Sigrid

YoungFanJoni MitchellBiggestNeil

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

Shiv Nadar

SpeakFindWantRareRepeatLevel

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

Mary-Louise Parker

MyselfPeopleMeFaceOutFamiliar

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

Christopher Buckley

PastYouLookNiceLivingWill

Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.

Bret Stephens

EarlyAcceptEventsYearsVietnam

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

Alice Walker

LoveHeartChildrenSoulWorldYou

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

James Schuyler

WordsImpossibleArtistAimFirst

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

Jane Pauley

WorkDepressionMeEnoughYouCall

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