Top 74 Quotes About Russel
#1. Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.
George Nelson
#2. When I met you, Peri, I thought this girl doesn't know it but she carries the three passion of Bertrand Russel: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable compassion for the suffering of mankind.
Elif Shafak
#3. [Russel] might not make it, he might die on the ice, but he would not die with fear. He would die working not to die...
Gary Paulsen
#4. RUSSEL. I want a strong, virile environment.
BONGI. Why don't you hang out at the YMCA gym?
Valerie Solanas
#5. We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#6. This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
{The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles Darwin, though he discussed Spencer's 'excellent expression' in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace (Jul 1866).}
Herbert Spencer
#7. RUSSEL. When he grows up I want to be able to point to him and say: "There goes my son -- the man". I want to live in a masculine culture.
BONGI. That's a contradiction in terms.
Valerie Solanas
#9. The great biographers take excessive liberties in denigrating his person, and, in doing so, they make it difficult to comprehend him."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 17
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#10. [I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#11. America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.
Russel Honore
#12. In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#13. You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
Russel Honore
#14. The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Russel Honore
#15. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
#16. Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#17. I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.
Russel Honore
#18. Hitler took the action of pitiless massacre as a last resort in the face of a perceived irreconcilable enemy."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 39
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#19. The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
Russel M. Nelson
#20. Virtually every literary piece written about Adolf Hitler in more than half a century since 1945 has been based on antipathy.
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 11
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#21. They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
Russel Honore
#22. People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
Russel Honore
#23. Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.
Russel Honore
#24. I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#25. In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.
Russel Honore
#26. You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.
Russel Honore
#27. Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
Russel Honore
#28. I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#31. An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the will of the Lord ["Our Sacred Duty to Honor Woman," Ensign, May 1999).
Russel M. Nelson
#33. The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at levelling must lead, at best, to social stagnation.
Russel Kirk
#34. Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.
Russel Honore
#35. Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.
Russel Honore
#36. I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.
Russel Honore
#37. I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.
Russel Honore
#38. Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
Russel Honore
#40. What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Alfred Russel Wallace
#41. This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.
Russel Honore
#42. You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.
Russel Honore
#43. But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#44. And in contrast to the Communist revolution in Russia and the Communist attempts at revolution in Germany from 1918 through 1923, Hitler's were virtually bloodless."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 44
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#45. To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#46. The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual elite."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, pp. 30-31
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#47. If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#48. The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.
Russel Honore
#49. You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.
Russel Honore
#50. As concerns the question of the psychological engine that drove Hitler, the conventional interpretation of lusting after power is, in final analysis, the refuge of lack of comprehension."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 27
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#51. I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone.
Russel Wright
#52. To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#53. There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#54. Don't Trust Blindly
If in shark infested waters, don't assume the fin coming toward you is a dolphin.
Mary Russel
#55. When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
Russel Honore
#56. Although characterized as uncultured and unread, Hitler comes off in his demands to create a monumental signature for a Greater Germany as historically and artistically gifted."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 32
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#57. I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#58. (...)it seems more probable that his anti-Semitism was less emotional and more objective than has been assumed to the present."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 37
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#59. Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#60. The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#61. During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.
Russel Honore
#62. And, as I said before, there are exceptions to the white norm: people who are white on the outside, but not white inside. I'm not sure what term should be applied to them other than "human beings.
Russel Means
#63. On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#64. As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#65. To comprehend the Hitler of 1919 is to comprehend the Hitler of the entire period from 1919 through 1945."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 35
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#66. It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#67. By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.
Russel Honore
#68. What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#69. Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.
Russel Honore
#71. There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#72. Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#73. In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#74. Simon and Garfunkel were prophetic. The Sound of Silence certainly applies today with so many people communicating through electronic devices. It isn't uncommon to see kids standing side by side talking without speaking. We bow and pray to the back-lit gods we made.
Mary Russel
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