Tom Friedman The World Is Flat Quotes

#1. In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.

H.G.Wells

#2. If you want more development in your relationship, move to an urban area.

Bauvard

#3. In order to be better, you should expect to be better.

Andrew McCutchen

#4. But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!

Timur Vermes

#5. Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

William Morris

#6. There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?

Joseph Campbell

#7. The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.

Mama Indigo

#8. Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.

Jeff Olson

#9. If I met me, I would say a quick hello and then think that I was a really nice girl.

Britney Spears

#10. The role of Empress became a full-time occupation.

Shan Sa

#11. The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.

Che Guevara

#12. In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

Aimee Teegarden

#13. Metaphor ... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.

Laura Riding