Karen Armstrong Quotes

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Karen Armstrong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 14, 1944

Topics

ReligionSocietyIslamMovementOut

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

John Lewis

HomeFeelYouWrongRightSomething

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

Jeff Bezos

SmallInternetYouHardOutHigh

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

John Philip Sousa

MusicGreatManMeAmericanEarth

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my parents might respond to.

Tony Harrison

PoetryParentsPeopleWantBecome

I have no clue when I'm getting married. I just go with the flow.

Rob Gronkowski

GoFlowGetting MarriedJustMarried

We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.

RuPaul

PeopleLanguageGayRaceSecret

There are disparities in accessing quality maternity health care in most every country, and most all health systems could and must be improved upon if we want to create healthy families who will thrive.

Christy Turlington

HealthQualityCareThriveCreate

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Sydney Pollack

ArtThinkingGrowSaturdayMovies

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

Portia de Rossi

TimeSmartPeopleMeThinkYou

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

LeadershipResultsBeingEffective

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

Shawn Johnson

LifeTrainingGoldYouTrainGet

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

Seth Shostak

TimeBelieveComputersThinkingWill

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