Institutions And Social Conflict Quotes

#1. And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#2. I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

Mario Batali

#3. I think I've just lost five pounds in fear sweat." Peabody mopped at her face. "Now I want a cannoli. I don't know why."
With a laugh, Roarke shifted to grin at her. "I'll buy you a dozen, precious."
"Cannolis, for God's sake.

J.D. Robb

#4. I was always looking up to supermodels. They were, like, my superheroes.

Kendall Jenner

#5. Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.

Joan Didion

#6. Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what his commentators think he means?

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

Clive Palmer

#8. My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

Sally Hawkins

#9. Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

H. Rap Brown

#10. Storytelling is in our DNA. It's what differentiates humans from other species: we don't just communicate information. We tell stories.

Gabriela Pereira

#11. Through the many years of what I thought was 'searching', was really the process of 'awakening'.

Ka Chinery

#12. Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#13. A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Carl Sagan

#14. The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.

Gary Locke

#15. So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

Malcolm Gladwell