Quotes About Totalizing

#1. I don't feel sentimental about the past, but I can't help noticing how hard it has become to keep a grip on anything. Maybe it's the totalizing impact of corporate culture, maybe it's the atomizing impact of technology.

Dana Spiotta

#2. Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

Abigail Disney

#3. I see signs of it wherever
racial, gender, sexual, and class identity politics are no longer totalizing but transcended-not negated-in creative exchange with other

Victor Anderson

#4. By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.

Manohla Dargis

#5. If you weren't there, and I weren't here ... If I weren't me ... but you were still you, I would be interested in letting you like-like me.

Courtney C. Stevens

#6. Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

Russell Baker

#7. Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Pope Francis

#8. I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire.

Daphne Du Maurier

#9. If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

Peter Kreeft

#10. Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.

Ivanka Trump

#11. Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

Ryan Reynolds

#12. An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue - Russian Proverb

Rachel Van Dyken

#13. I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.

Kathy Freston

#14. When it comes to picking parts, I do make an effort to choose parts that I want to do, and not necessarily parts someone else wants me to do, or parts that someone else is going to respond to.

Mila Kunis

#15. Life is not a competition.
There is enough work for everybody.
Find your passion and fulfill it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I will worship at the shrine of Brad from this day forth.

Alessandra Torre

#17. I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only elective, so this is their one shot. They'll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

Robert Hass

#18. Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me."
As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.

Maggie Nelson