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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.
I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.
I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome.
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff.
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
I feel like my brand and Pentatonix brand sometimes don't really... they clash a little bit.
Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.
There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.
Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.
Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.
After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.
Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.
Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.
While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.
As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.
Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically.
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's a reason for so much tragedy.
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
