I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.
~By Dick Fosbury ~
A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.
~By Sharon Stone ~
First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
~By C. L. R. James ~
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
~By John Morley ~
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.
~By Laurent Fabius ~
They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
~By Johann Most ~
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
~By Jose Saramago ~
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
~By Kate Millett ~
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
~By Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ~
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
~By Jean Piaget ~
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.
~By Lee Harvey Oswald ~
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
~By Mao Zedong ~
The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
~By Arthur Keith ~
We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.
~By James Levine ~
I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
~By Georges Jacques Danton ~
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
~By Thomas Kuhn ~
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
~By Frank Herbert ~
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
~By Kenneth Miller ~
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.
~By David Brenner ~
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
~By C. L. R. James ~
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
~By David O. McKay ~
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
~By Poul Anderson ~
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
~By Germaine Greer ~
By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
~By Mitch McConnell ~
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
~By Patty Duke ~
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
~By Hu Shih ~
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
~By George C. Marshall ~
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
~By Herbert Read ~
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
~By Scott Cook ~
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
~By Albert Camus ~
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
~By Huey Newton ~
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
~By Arthur Keith ~
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
~By Nadia Comaneci ~
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
~By Jean Genet ~
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
~By Keith Henson ~
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
~By Karl Marx ~
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
~By Hu Shih ~
We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
~By Buzz Aldrin ~
We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
~By Beth Orton ~
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.
~By George Cuvier ~
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
~By John Ambrose Fleming ~
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
~By George Sand ~
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
~By Georg Buchner ~
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
~By Gary L. Francione ~
As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
~By Barbara Deming ~
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
~By Marvin Minsky ~
There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
~By Jimmy Swaggart ~
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
~By Henry M. Morris ~
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
~By Graham Greene ~
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
~By Charles James Fox ~
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
~By Laura Dern ~
If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.
~By Perry Farrell ~
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.
~By Alexander Kerensky ~
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
~By Jeff Hawkins ~
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
~By C. L. R. James ~
While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
~By Mario Puzo ~
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
~By John Acton ~
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
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