Cultural Forces Quotes

#1. I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.

Antoine Predock

#2. In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.

Caitlin Flanagan

#3. People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.

Kenneth Roberts

#4. To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no small matter, to untangle our true beliefs from what we have been taught to believe about who and what girls and women are.

Jeanne Elium

#5. The forces of procrastination, self-doubt, worry, cultural expectations, even family and friends, can hold your life in place, like Gravity.

Matt Gersper

#6. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe.

Robert McKee

#7. But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.

Bob Kerrey

#8. The glory of the cross is bound up with the effectiveness of its accomplishment.

John Murray

#9. Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do.

Diana Butler Bass

#10. Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

Phil Knight

#11. Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

Lady Gaga

#12. My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'

Ursula Burns

#13. These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Childe Hassam

#14. The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#15. Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Amity Gaige

#16. We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.

Hu Jintao

#17. I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

Daniel Woodrell

#18. When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

Mario Batali

#19. Faithfulness works itself out in the context of complex social, political, economic, and cultural forces that prevail at a particular time and place.

James Davison Hunter

#20. Could you actually remember pain? He didn't think so. You knew there was such a thing, and that you had suffered it, but that wasn't the same.

Stephen King

#21. Those of us who are going to live," Dinah Said, "have to start living by our own lights.

Neal Stephenson

#22. Rather a drink be my master than a man.

Pierce Brown

#23. Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

Dejan Stojanovic

#24. Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

Marvin Harris

#25. I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

David Maraniss

#26. Women's music is underrepresented.

Beth Anderson

#27. Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

D. Harlan Wilson

#28. Religions are confluences of organic-cultural flows that intensify joy and confront suffering by drawing on human and supra-human forces to make homes and cross boundaries.(p. 54)

Thomas A. Tweed