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Charles Krauthammer Quotes

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

Charles Krauthammer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 13, 1950 - June 21, 2018

Topics

Rise Above Violence Rise Civilization

Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in the 1800s, but became popularized in the 1920s and the 1930s.

Jennifer Lee

1920s United 1930s United States

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Jeff Lindsay

Justice Moment Job Law Connection

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Johnny Carson

Time Lose Early Christmas Office

I spend a lot of time sizing up a tree before I fell it. Once it's down, I clear away the brush around the tree before I start cutting it into lengths so I won't trip and lose my balance with the chain saw running.

Sue Hubbell

Time Tree Balance Start Lose Down

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

Architecture Wall Event Column

I've long been interested in the tale-within-a-tale phenomenon. I'm familiar with many tales which use this framework or the device of many people in one place, telling their stories, or multiple storytellers commenting on each others' stories with their own.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

People Long Place Others Own Been

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

Christopher Walken

Never Honest To Be Honest Ambitious

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Clive Thompson

Science Money Influence Serious Want

I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.

Allison Williams

Simple Look Everyday Classic Turn

I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.

Peter Thiel

Success Think You Complicated Works

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

Sharon Gless

Think Understanding Human I Think

I can only say it is not for us to decide who should lead Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide.

Sergei Lavrov

I Can Say Lead Decide Us Only