Academic Politics Quotes

#1. His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been forced to deal with idiots all too often.

Alan Dean Foster

#2. What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

Majora Carter

#3. As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by which to measure the degree of academic freedom in a country.

Masao Maruyama

#4. Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ...

Brandi L. Bates

#5. What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

N. T. Wright

#6. Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion.

Francis Macdonald Cornford

#7. Develop and exercise the ability to understand your partner's point of view so completely that you're able to believe them. Keep listening until you get their point of view so entirely that you understand how it is true for them.

Beth Banning

#8. I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Elizabeth Warren

#9. Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.

Samuel Beckett

#10. People like that? People who don't want to be found? They're usually really good at staying lost.

Hannah Harrington

#11. The political motive in the academic breast is honest enough. It is fear---genuine, perpetual, heart-felt timorousness. All the Political Arguments are addressed to this passion. Have you ever noticed how people say, 'I'm afraid I don't ...' when they mean, 'I think I don't ...'?

Francis Macdonald Cornford

#12. The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

John F. Kennedy

#13. It's hard to believe a kid hitting golf balls in the cow pastures of New Mexico could have accomplished what I have accomplished.

Billy Casper

#14. In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Pierre Trudeau

#15. There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

Russell Baker

#16. Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present .

Carlos Wallace

#17. This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

Noah Cicero

#18. I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

James Dyson

#19. you can't impact something you don't touch.

Lisa Wingate