All Quotes

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.
‐‐ Edmund White

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
‐‐ Alex Ferguson

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.
‐‐ Patti Smith

The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.
‐‐ Dennis Christopher

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
‐‐ George Grosz

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
‐‐ John Grierson

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.
‐‐ Julius Sterling Morton

The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.
‐‐ Robert Duvall

The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
‐‐ Dan Savage

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
‐‐ Gabe Newell

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.
‐‐ Andrew Lansley

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
‐‐ James Hillman

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.
‐‐ Matt Stone

The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.
‐‐ Kumar Mangalam Birla

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.
‐‐ Sophia Myles

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.
‐‐ Jose Andres

The culture of New York is just impossible to replicate. It's such an incredible feeling to be walking on the streets of New York. You can literally find everything you need in a five block radius oftentimes.
‐‐ Max Schneider

The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.
‐‐ Ann Cotton

The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.
‐‐ Jessa Gamble

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
‐‐ Susan Faludi

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
‐‐ Ashley Montagu

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
‐‐ Boyle Roche

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.
‐‐ Jerry Yang

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
‐‐ Lydia M. Child

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
‐‐ Isak Dinesen

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
‐‐ J. Edgar Hoover

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.
‐‐ Jeremy Paxman

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
‐‐ Barbara Sher

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.
‐‐ Andrea Barrett

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
‐‐ Francois Englert

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
‐‐ Lewis Tappan

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.
‐‐ Henry Villard

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
‐‐ Carl Rogers

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
‐‐ Friedrich August von Hayek

The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.
‐‐ Robert Reich

The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.
‐‐ John Sulston

The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.
‐‐ Stephanie Tubbs Jones

The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
‐‐ Vikram Patel

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.
‐‐ Seth Rogen