Quotes by Class American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster. Noam Chomsky perceptionrealclass I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know. Oliver Sacks classboysschool There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. mediocritycriticismclass I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family. Olivier Martinez parisbornclass The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy. Omar Khayyam classappreciationmen With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. Oprah Winfrey classphilosophymoving Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing it into a class-based entitlement program may at long last bring Americans around to a consideration of the growing inequality that threatens the harmony of our democracy far more than the alarmist cry of 'racial division.' Orlando Patterson classlongthinking Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth. Orlando Bloom realjourneyclass People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence. Orison Swett Marden classhandspeople We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life. Ornette Coleman musicsufferingclass The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people that are there. So the system does need to be revamped [to tax the rich less and the middle class more.] Orrin Hatch classnumberspeople Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. Orhan Pamuk western-cultureistanbulclass I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. Orson Scott Card writingclassbelieve In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists. Noam Chomsky struggleclassrunning My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature. Oscar Micheaux humanityclasslong In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on. Orson Scott Card classphilosophythinking Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. Orson Welles moneyrealclass When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own. Oscar Romero causessidesclass It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. Orson Scott Card luxurypoliticalclass I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. Orson Welles ordinaryworryclass«150151152153154155156157158159160»
