Pillars Quotes - Page 6

• The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Creating, Social

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• I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.

  Colm Toibin

  War, Mountain, Barcelona

  "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.

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• And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Home, People, Wife

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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• Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

  Dan Kildee

  Agreement, United States, Economy

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Fire

  "The Portable Steinbeck: 2".

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• Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's left ear. Jamie rolled his eyes heavenward, but shrugged and obligingly sang a note. The little man jerked back as though he'd been shot.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Eye, Men, Pockets

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.1234, Delacorte Press

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• I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up

  Haruki Murakami

  Confused, Talking, Two

  Haruki Murakami (1989). “Norwegian Wood”

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• Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

  David Eddings

  Hate, Forgiving, Rising

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• Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Dust, Heaven

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.224, Macmillan

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• In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Mind, Ordinary

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

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• I knew what Saint Dane was sensing. I knew why he was confused. he thought I was done. He thought we were done. He was wrong, and that's what he was sensing. He felt our presence. I figured I might as well confirm things for him. "Pendragon, don't--," Patrick warned. I stepped out fron behind the pillar into the light. "Man, that suit is just wicked cool!" I called out.

  D. J. MacHale

  Confused, Men, Light

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Racism, Historical, Details

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.78, Verso

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• In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

  Kofi Annan

  Responsibility, Technology, Government

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• I lived for a long time under vast porticos
  That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires,
  And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous
  In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fire, Long, Sun

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• I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me,
  Loungin, between two pillars of ivory.
  I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece.
  My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.

  Killah Priest

  Rap, Two, Ivory

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• Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy.

  Dina Powell

  Successful, Presidential, World

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• I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Loss, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Mean, Knowing

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• Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

  Christopher Flavin

  Humanity, Vision, Climate

  Christopher Flavin, Amanda Chiu, Lisa Mastny (2008). “Low-carbon Energy: A Roadmap”, p.36, Worldwatch Institute

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• Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Bridges, Longing, Devotion

  "'Michael: ein Deutsches Schicksal in Tagebuchblättern' ('Michael: a German fate in diary notes')". Book by Joseph Goebbels, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., Munich, 7th edition, 1935.

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• O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

  William Blake

  Dark, Winter, Doors

  William Blake (1953). “Selected poetry and prose”, Random House Inc

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• Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.

  Barack Obama

  People, President, Pathways

  "Politics and Foreign Aid: What Romney and Obama Can Learn from Huckabee and Lincoln" by Tom Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god.

  Zahi Hawass

  Osiris, Pyramids, Feet

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• My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

  Vo Nguyen Giap

  Fighting, Seven

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• Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

  Owen Feltham

  Crush, Fall, Broken

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