Top 1200 October Revolution Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

Hong Kong's government needs to bear most of the responsibility for the Fishball Revolution.

October 7th [2016], indeed, WikiLeaks released its whole new dump. A whole new bunch of e-mails and documents, this time from [Hillary] Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, e-mails that U.S. intelligence say were hacked by Russia. Apparently, again, they were waiting for the best possible timing on the release.

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace.

Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

African-American women are the most loyal constituency of the Democratic Party, and we need to do more to make sure that we engage them, that we don't take them for granted. We need to be there. And again, I keep thinking about that woman I met in Detroit shortly after my election, who said, "You've got to stop showing up every fourth October and telling me that you care."

The new course we're on at Interface ... is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to the earth.

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Saudi Arabia must return to fully supporting the Syrian revolution and to ally with the Turks.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it's worth a lot.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.

That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

I've been saying we need a revolution, and there's no good shouting about it when you're not actually doing anything.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.

Poetry and prose can start a revolution, break walls, and ideas can build nations.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.