Quotes of Increasingly - somelinesforyou

“ We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ”

- Milton Friedman

“ The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. ”

- Henry Geldzahler

“ The principle of neutrality… has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ”

- Hannes Alfven

“ Most people… find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. ”

- James A. Baldwin

“ Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“ I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ”

- Bell Hooks

“ Our professed love of freedom is increasingly shown to be a sophistry that replaces wisdom and righteousness with self-gratification. ”

- Carl Henry

“ Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile. ”

- Timothy McVeigh

“ What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. ”

- Blaine Lee

“ It is becoming increasingly clear to me that the search for courage and the pilgrimage called faith are inseparable sides of the same reality. ”

- W. Paul Jones

“ I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists. ”

- Brigitte Bardot

“ The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people. ”

- Donald N. Smith

“ It's scary to think that the infrastructure of the industrialized world is increasingly based on software like this. ”

- Stephen Wolfe

“ Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. ”

- Peter Gabriel

“ In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter. ”

- Jay Schmiedeskamp

“ Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ”

- John Naisbitt

“ Most people…find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. ”

- Howard Davies

“ Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore. ”

- Lauren Springer

“ The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. ”

- Wright C. Mills

“ The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

- Elliot Richardson

“ Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat…where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Today's newest breed of employee is the self-manager. These workers are the ones who survived the recent waves of downsizing, both by seeking and capitalizing on new opportunities and by learning new skills. Because these employees increasingly possess the skills and technological tools to supervise themselves - individually or in teams - they are eliminating the need for layers of management… ”

- John Cahllenger

“ School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ”

- Ivan Illich

“ Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. ”

- Oscar W. Firkins

“ We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. ”

- Rupert Murdoch

“ Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings. ”

- Clark Moustakas
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