David Lilienthal Quotes

#1. Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

David Lilienthal

#2. Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.

David Lilienthal

#3. It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.

David Lilienthal

#4. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Stephen Jay Gould

#5. We keep saying, 'We have no other course.' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course.'

David Lilienthal

#6. Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

David Lilienthal

#7. It must not remain our desire only to acquire the art of the bird," Lilienthal had written. "It is our duty not to rest until we have attained a perfect scientific conception of the problem of flight.

David McCullough

#8. My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

Eliot Spitzer

#9. Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed ...

Toni Cade Bambara

#11. Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Jean Harris

#12. I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of.

Brenda Hillman

#13. I got sober, and I got happy again.

Macklemore

#14. The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Francis Quarles

#15. The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

David Lilienthal

#16. Hope is like a needle in a haystack. No matter how small, and even if you can't find it, it's there. It may just take another set of eyes.

Mark Cortes

#17. I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

B.o.B

#18. The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

David Lilienthal

#19. In spite of the strife the stars were bright as crystal.

George Saunders

#20. I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated.

Sheena Iyengar

#21. True, I am drunk, and small, and damp, but mistake not my moistness for weakness, although there's an argument to be made for that, as well.

Christopher Moore

#22. Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

David Lilienthal

#23. I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

Gene Pitney