Devolving Quotes

#1. Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

David Blunkett

#2. The world's greatest changes are made at home.

Wes Fesler

#3. Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.

Saul David

#4. Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#5. All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

Alan Kay

#6. The air was thick with betrayal. No one could trust anyone else, and in that dismal atmosphere the men seemed to grow even duller, devolving into mechanical extensions of the machines they serviced.

Hans Fallada

#7. What is it?"
"A prayer."
"For a child?"
She nodded.
"For me?"
Another nod.
"On a tree?"
"Trees spend all day looking up at God.

Mitch Albom

#8. Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time?

Franz Kafka

#9. In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

Brian Herbert

#10. I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

Trey Anastasio

#11. People feeling the need to live inside of Faraday cages is a sad reflection on modern society that humans are devolving into living inside of safe spaces.

Steven Magee

#12. A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq.

Mowaffak Al-Rubaie

#13. The worst is, I remain so stone cold. Does this war make you an 'alive-dead person'? Is it not possible to remain yourself in this chaos? How long still?

Diet Eman

#14. Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Ruben Blades

#15. The 100% American is 99% idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. You cannot hide love
Love will get on its way
To the heart of someone you love
Far or near, it goes home
To where it belongs
To the heart of lovers

Rumi

#17. If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

Larisa Alexandrovna

#18. The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

Beau Willimon

#19. We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in overdrive and hyperbole, we believe
perhaps correctly
that nobody will hear us. In the process, we've sacrificed nuance and judgement and distinction, and thereby cheapened the conversation.

Frank Luntz

#20. The role of democracy is not to banish disagreement but rather to prevent political disagreements from devolving into armed conflict.

Michael C. Munger

#21. We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

Alan Thicke

#22. It is useless to judge nineteenth-century Mormons by late twentieth-century standards. Both men and women were given an impossible task and failed at it. All we can do today is sympathize with them in their tragedies and marvel at their heroism as they suffered.

Todd M. Compton

#23. Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms.

Brian Donohoe