Paul Valery Quotes

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945

Topics

FirePeopleWeatherAnimalsEnemies

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

John Gould

TimeWifeBeginningBrokenPeople

'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut off from each other.

John Lanchester

CommunityPeopleRealityPoliticians

When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the factories you haven't seen before. You're going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

TexasThinkYouCanadaGoSee

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

Johnny Cash

Growing UpSingingDoorsBackDream

Brand matters. And ESPN is, by far, the most popular sports brand. People trust ESPN.

John Skipper

SportsTrustPeopleBrandMatters

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

Sidney Blumenthal

WeatherArgumentConservativeEconomy

My father was an ex-Marine Goldwater Republican.

Steven Van Zandt

FatherRepublican

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

Tom Harkin

TodayHealthSickFaceCareAmerica

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

Ruben Blades

FamilyMoneyMiamiBeginAnything

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Liya Kebede

HealthWomanGivingCountryPoor

We treat the management-to-workforce relationship as very important and will continue to invest in that relationship.

Dennis Muilenburg

RelationshipTreatImportantWill

Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.

Pramila Jayapal

ChangeSpacePoliticalFriendsKnow

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