Eric Hobsbawm Nationalism Quotes

#1. This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

John Henry Holland

#2. The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

Barry Ritholtz

#3. no stone. Except for the huge reeds in the marshes, it had no trees for timber. Here, then, was a region with

Samuel Noah Kramer

#4. Fire beats roses again.

Suzanne Collins

#5. Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.

Albert Bigelow Paine

#6. A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.

Paul Auster

#7. Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage door - a dark heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. "Carter after you."
"Um, how do I - "
"How do you think?"
Great another mystery. I was about to suggest we ram Amos's head against it and see if that worked.

Rick Riordan

#8. [When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.

Carol Mann

#9. [N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist ... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

Eric Hobsbawm

#10. Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

Eric Hobsbawm

#11. I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.

Shirley Jackson

#12. Whoa, boss! Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade. I don't wanna be a horse-ke-bob!

Rick Riordan

#13. If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.

Ken Buck

#14. I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

Jackson Rathbone