Franklin Foer Quotes

#1. Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

Robert Bridges

#2. I have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what.

Alice Waters

#3. I believe that the rising of the proletariat, if it ever comes in this country, will end in a colossal victory for capitalism - that capitalism, as at present and in the past, will play off one mob against another, and pick the pockets of both.

Franklin Foer

#4. Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

Franklin Foer

#5. Lily?" a deep voice called from behind me. I didn't recognize it. I spun around and backed up as a tall, dark-haired man stepped into view. My stomach dropped. Had he been hiding between the trees?

Natasha Preston

#6. Politically I am absolutely honest, which is to say, as honest as possible; which is to say, honest more or less; which is to say, far more honest than the general.

Franklin Foer

#7. If two people agree on a signal, they stay in range. Because if one of them doesn't answer, they're in trouble, all right?

Suzanne Collins

#8. I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

Franklin Foer

#9. Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Franklin Foer

#10. Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

Franklin Foer

#11. Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

Franklin Foer

#12. It's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.

Franklin Foer

#13. I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

Franklin Foer

#15. People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

Franklin Foer