(664 quotes found)
“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually”
Abba Eban
“Duty is not collective; it is personal”
Calvin Coolidge
“The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.”
William Penn
“The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.”
Humphrey Davy
“I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.”
David Letterman
“More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.”
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
“The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.”
David Mamet
“We hope Dracula can bring new blood to the hobby of stamp collecting.”
Barry Ziehl
“The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!”
Salma Hayek