Martin Jacques Quotes

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.

Martin Jacques

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

PowerChallengeGrowingMoralWill

What's so interesting about 'Point Break' to me is that it's a study of testosterone and adrenaline by a woman. That's why it's little more interesting than it should be.

John C. McGinley

WomanMeInterestingWhyMoreStudy

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

HistoryPastMemoryPeopleThink

The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers' needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer - as long as the world isn't changing very much.

Michael Dell

WorldLongYouMeetMoreProducer

My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.

Rufus Wainwright

SmileLookWhyCheeksExplode

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

Mike Ditka

WinAchieveWantMotivateWho

If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.

Michael Pollan

LightEatingNegativeYouMeatYour

'Cue for Treason,' by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me.

Miriam Toews

LifeGirlMeBrainYoungWant

I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy.

Lisa Loeb

TimeCell PhoneCrazyFriendsPhone

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

Christopher Lee

MoreFirstMetalCourseAlbumSang

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

Boris Johnson

GoodFindingMarsChancesOlivePM

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

Brandi Carlile

FatherMotherMusiciansSidesSinger

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

August Strindberg

FriendshipWomanManSocietyView

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Martin Jacques