Top 1200 Central Asia Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.

I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.

Music has been of central importance to Disney movies for as long as I can remember. To contribute to that legacy, is a great honor.

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

We have enormous interests in the Asia Pacific. In addition to our economy, we need to secure our allies, protect our environment, promote peace and stability, ensure the free-flow of commerce, and stand up for human rights.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

I support the homies, like Mike Jay and Hannibal Buress. And I listen to Comedy Central Radio in the car.

Maine is the only state in the country to produce wild blueberries - the industry is central to our heritage and culture.

In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.

When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.

Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

Maturity transformation is a central part of the economic function of banks and many other types of financial intermediaries.

Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

In some places - particularly in Asia and Europe - you often see anti-government graffiti, seditious slogans, banners, leaflets, in certain neighbourhoods. The idea is that rather than wait for an explosion to occur from a bomb, it would be useful to gather intelligence on the location of these incidents.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

I spent three years at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, which I enjoyed very much.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

I'm so central to YouTube now, and that puts me in the spotlight and raises a lot of questions like, 'Why is he so big?'

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.

I feel Arjun is one of the central characters of 'Mahabharata' and people have lots of expectations from me when I started working on the show.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

I like to walk around Central Park and take in the vibe, have a picnic if the weather is good, and people-watch.

A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'

London's central role in the financial market would be undermined if wealthy foreigners did not want to come here.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.

Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.

Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.

I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.

With all those fledgling countries in Asia, who really want to stand with us but they live under the shadow of China and the smaller shadow of Russia. So I just think Trans-Pacific Partnership is really important both economically and geopolitically.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.

Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.