Gene Roddenberry Quotes

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Gene Roddenberry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: producer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 19, 1921 - October 24, 1991

Topics

StrengthFightCivilizationAbility

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

Jessica Capshaw

HeartMeFeelSomeoneYouPlay

When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'

Joel A. Barker

SurvivalFirstAssumeUsOriginDid

For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.

Jeffrey Kluger

ChildrenParentsBelieveGeneration

When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when they come for your whole neck.

Amanda Seales

PeopleMovingYouNeckKeepAgree

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won't be free.

Stephen Marley

HeartSoulMindThoughtsFreeThink

All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

ControlPersonalOverYearsCharm

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

Sinead O'Connor

PeopleMeBetterFeelBeingWeight

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

Ron Paul

CapitalismShouldSinceCondemned

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

Mathieu Amalric

MyselfFeelMeetingAliveNeedAct

I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J. Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it, too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.

Mary J. Blige

LiveWalkYou Can Do ItWorldSaying

I've always been a bad flyer, but I don't let it get in the way of travelling. I love stepping off the plane and feeling the heat and the foreign smell of being somewhere different.

Louise Nurding

LoveBadFeelingWaySmellHeat

I may never get back to the track. The problem was that I was dominating my event, and the winning became slightly boring. I wanted new challenges, and I've got that on the road.

Bradley Wiggins

ChallengesWinningRoadProblemBack

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