Nonimperialist Quotes

#1. The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

Lawrence Summers

#2. Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. When we first talked about the touch-screen, the guys came back and said, 'There's nothing like that in the automotive supply chain,'" Musk said. "I said, 'I know. That's because it's never been put in a fucking car before.

Ashlee Vance

#4. I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

J. Cole

#5. Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Helene Hanff

#6. It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.

Terence McKenna

#7. If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then you've got to close the door and write something - that is the moment of truth which we all try to postpone as long as possible.

David Ogilvy

#8. Money may not be able to buy you happiness but a lack of it sure can cause a lot of misery!

Patrick Maher

#9. Forgive me if I'm wrong. But are you-were you-did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago?

Christina Baker Kline

#10. Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Michelle Malkin

#11. Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

Ursula Burns

#12. As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

Yo-Yo Ma

#13. No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people
that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.

Lionel Shriver

#14. Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week.
Carl Costanza - Hot Six

Janet Evanovich

#15. He felt better knowing he'd feel better soon,

Michele W. Miller