Quotes and Sayings about Mob
"And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Change, Technology, First, Now, Radical, Years)
"Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Life, Will)
"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."
- Walter Anderson
(Related: Life, Quality, Character, Gravity, Loss, Pain, Sadness, Treasure)
"I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Men, Women, Rights, Nothing)
"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Mob, Propaganda)
"But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Courage, Being, Consciousness, Mob, Right)
"A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Government, Law, Mob)
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Accidents, American, Disasters)
"We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: People, Automobiles, Safety)
"According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Committee, Network)
"A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Car, Culture, Man, Wind)
"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
- Henri Bergson
(Related: Perception, Act)
"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car)
"Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models."
- Emma Bonino
(Related: Women, Old, Workers)
"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule."
- James Bovard
(Related: Equality, Vision, Fathers, Founding, Law, Mob)
"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Computer, Internet, Will, Years)
"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Body, Eyes)
"America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams."
- David Brooks
(Related: Dreams, Politics, America, Aspirations, Culture, Democracy, Personality)
"Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines."
- Paul Brunton
(Related: Strength, Man, Mob, Needs, Solitude, Weakness)
"The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo."
- Art Buchwald
(Related: Accidents, Americans, states, Statistics, United)
"Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly communicate with people affected by and interested in the mobilization and deployment of military people."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: People, Commanders, Freedom, Military)
"It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me."
- James Caan
(Related: Mob)
"We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Control, Internet, Numbers, Will)
"I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices."
- Vinton Cerf
"Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly."
- Michael Chabon
(Related: Bed, Meeting)
"The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world."
- Peter Chernin
(Related: Company, Content, Media, Sense, World)
"The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast."
- Michael Chertoff
(Related: Thought, Want)
"Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home."
- Michael Chertoff
(Related: Home, Problems, Respect, Want)
"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance."
- Robert Collier
(Related: Battle, First, Mind, Will)
"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
(Related: Opportunity, Earth)
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
(Related: Earth)
"Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!"
- John Davidson
(Related: Life, Action, Talk)
"Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet."
- Dorothy Denning
(Related: Automobiles, Internet, Terrorism)
"The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete."
- Rudolf Diesel
(Related: Work, Life, Will)
"The mob is the mother of tyrants."
- Diogenes
(Related: Mother, Mob)
"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
- Mary Douglas
(Related: Marriage, Jobs, Relationships, Stability)
"I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed."
- Fran Drescher
"Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war."
- John Foster Dulles
(Related: Men, Peace, War, Mankind, Spiritual, Will)
"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
- Wayne Dyer
(Related: Control, Nothing, Sense, Worry)
"In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting."
- Bob Edwards
(Related: Work, Driving, Road)
"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile."
- Bob Edwards
(Related: Time)
"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."
- Epicurus
(Related: Life, Possessions)
"There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Life, People, Books, Fiction, Want)
"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(Related: Automobiles)
"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."
- B. C. Forbes
(Related: Business, Order, Results)
"If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it."
- James Forrestal
(Related: War, Chance, Circumstances, Europe, Lies, Losing, Mob, Will)
"Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core."
- Timothy Thomas Fortune
(Related: Society, Expression, Law, Mob, Opinion, Public, Public opinion)
"Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer."
- John Fowler
(Related: Order, Today)
"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
- Frederick II
(Related: Religion, Mob)
"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way."
- Milton Friedman
(Related: Government, Civilization, Order, Self, Theory, World)
"National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane."
- J. F. C. Fuller
(Related: Fight, First, Mob, Nations)
"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles."
- Paul Fussell
(Related: People, Americans, Anxiety, Automobiles, College, University, World)
"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Money, Being)
"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: America, American)
"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
(Related: Difficulties, Existence, Order)
"I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol."
- Susan George
(Related: Automobiles)
"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."
- Todd Gitlin
(Related: Patriotism, Americans, Name)
"Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs."
- Rob Glaser
(Related: Opportunity, Entertainment)
"It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!"
- Terry Goodkind
(Related: Driving, Fiction, Sound)
"If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels."
- Bart Gordon
(Related: Country, Oil)
"Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: Power, Automobiles, Oil, Plants)
"I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Government, Influence, Russia, Support)
"In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Government, Effect, Russia)
"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."
- Rachel Griffiths
(Related: Movies, Being, Bigotry, Civil rights, Drama, Fathers, Kids, Mob)
"Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives."
- Raul Grijalva
(Related: Automobiles, Oil)
"When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Mob, Open, Theater)
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
- Matt Groening
(Related: Love, Night, Racing)
"Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time."
- Edward Hall
(Related: Time, Space)
"Mobilize people to vote and to re-elect Clinton as the only way to defeat."
- Gus Hall
(Related: People, Defeat, Vote)
"Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile."
- James Norman Hall
(Related: Peace, Charm, Identity)
"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."
- Nhat Hanh
(Related: People, Enemies, Enemy, Order, Will)
"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."
- Lawrence Hargrave
(Related: Common sense, Result, Skill, Want)
"I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains."
- Jeff Hawkins
(Related: Computers, Design, Study)
"As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Innovation, Internet, Result, Will)
"If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent."
- Edward S. Herman
(Related: Business, War, Community, Want)
"There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob."
- Herodotus
(Related: Mob, Nothing)
"This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility."
- Eugen Herrigel
(Related: Mind, Present, Reflection, Spirit)
"If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor."
- Paul Hoffman
(Related: Europe, Labor)
"The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor."
- Paul Hoffman
(Related: Labor, Potential)
"Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Destruction, Public, Safety, Weapons)
"Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth."
- Jacky Ickx
(Related: Promotion, Public, Will, Word)
"Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick."
- Robert Indiana
(Related: First)
"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Men, Society, Community, Riot)
"If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota."
- Bill Janklow
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Company, Kids)
"My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation."
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(Related: Courage, Determination, Discipline, Hope, Confidence, Grave)
"Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is."
- Diane Johnson
(Related: Car, Time, Waste)
"In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better."
- Rufus Jones
(Related: Fighting, Nation, Will)
"The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Growth, Strength, Decisions, Difficulty, Economy, Tax, Investment, Potential, Risk)
"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: Intelligence, Computer, Inventions, Laziness, Man)
"What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: Liberty, Mob, Order, Police, Relaxation)
"Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to."
- Chantal Kreviazuk
(Related: Night, Sleep)
"This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature."
- Steve Largent
(Related: Home, Battle, Office)
"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Information)
"The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up."
- Jay Leno
(Related: Iraq, Support, Today)
"Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems."
- Bill Lipinski
(Related: Policy, Nation, Problems)
"I never rode in an automobile until I was 12."
- Loretta Lynn
"A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before."
- Jean-Francois Lyotard
(Related: Now, Self)
"The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks."
- Gustav Mahler
(Related: Love)
"The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment."
- Herbert Marcuse
(Related: Home, Soul, People, Kitchen)
"You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas."
- Ed Markey
(Related: Months)
"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile."
- Christy Mathewson
(Related: Baseball, Evil, Fans, Luxury, Umpire)
"Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors."
- Debi Mazar
(Related: Actor, Actors, Being, Mob)
"I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great."
- Jason Mewes
(Related: Love, Mob)
"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Life)
"What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'."
- Joan Miro
(Related: Music, Eloquence, Silence)
"China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good."
- Mark Mobius
(Related: Time, Reason, Will)
"If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different."
- Mark Mobius
(Related: Food, Want)
"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal."
- Mark Mobius
(Related: Activism, Company, Privilege, Responsibility, Right, Wrong)
"I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Letters)
"I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Faith, Friend, Doctors, Right, Thinking, Years)
"I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Home)
"In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Disease)
"Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working."
- Mary Ann Mobley
"The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Home, Right, State, Thinking, Years)
"Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Cure, Disease)
"I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Church)
"I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Road, Years)
"My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Daughter, Disney)
"I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Cancer, Cure)
"Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Work, Doctors, Help, Nothing, Praise, Treatment)
"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Disease, Effect)
"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Disease)
"Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Heart, Stress, Trouble)
"If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now."
- Moby
(Related: Sex, Now, Symbol)
"I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers."
- Moby
(Related: Taste)
"I don't really trust men who claim they are not interested in porn."
- Moby
(Related: Men, Trust)
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
- Maria Montessori
(Related: Evil, Lies)
"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
- Alva Myrdal
(Related: Science, Being)
"We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane."
- Ray Nagin
(Related: Time, Learning)
"Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind."
- Bob Ney
(Related: Equality, Technology, People, Knowledge, Opportunity, Belief, Blind, Security)
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: God, Man, Mob, Now, Spirit)
"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Cause, Man)
"My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule."
- Graham Norton
(Related: Day, Guest, Want)
"Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible."
- Hermann Oberth
(Related: Past)
"And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech."
- Camille Paglia
(Related: Power, Thought, Superiority, Delusion, Democrats, Freedom, Needs, Party, Speech, Wishes, Word)
"What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person."
- Christopher Parker
(Related: People, Day, Surprises)
"Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason."
- William Penn
(Related: Man, Mob, Passion, Reason, Riot)
"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
- Shimon Peres
(Related: Peace, War, Leader, Contradiction, First, Man)
"Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm."
- Philippe Perrin
(Related: Funny, Right)
"Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy."
- Roger Tory Peterson
(Related: People, Birds, Envy, Want)
"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
- Edgar Allan Poe
(Related: Imagination, Time, Mob)
"The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you."
- Jane Porter
(Related: Dance, Mob, Will)
"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances."
- William Powell
(Related: Friends, Merriment, Mob, Quiet, Solitude)
"If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do."
- Richard Pryor
(Related: Thought, Being, Want)
"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Fire, Freedom)
"One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction."
- Nido Qubein
(Related: People, Direction, Result)
"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: Morality, Actions, Law, Mob)
"Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."
- Norman Rockwell
(Related: Actor, Sun)
"Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out."
- Al Roker
(Related: People, Poor)
"Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Eyes)
"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Education, Control, Teaching)
"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Government, Responsibility)
"Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles."
- Paul Samuelson
(Related: Automobiles, Internet, Old, Will)
"I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: American, Disaster, June)
"Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry."
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
(Related: Leadership, Act, Democrats, Economy, Fact, President)
"Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: People, Enemies, Order, Stability)
"The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer."
- Al Sharpton
(Related: Prayer, Right, School)
"Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else."
- Allan Sherman
(Related: Success, Winning)
"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us."
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
(Related: Lie, People, Enthusiasm, Being, Brazil, Desire, Problems)
"You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles."
- Gordon Sinclair
(Related: Automobiles, Talk)
"I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation."
- Christian Slater
(Related: Time, Laughter, Play, Vacation)
"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."
- Robert Smithson
(Related: Eye)
"In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides."
- Steven Soderbergh
"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."
- Susan Sontag
(Related: Existence, Future, Past, Present)
"Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting."
- Sylvester Stallone
(Related: Action, Formula, Revenge)
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."
- Billy Sunday
(Related: Christian, Church)
"So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman."
- Allen Tate
(Related: Life, Failure)
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."
- Leon Trotsky
(Related: America, Country, Effect, Man, Poor, Russia, Vanity)
"In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit."
- Verne Troyer
(Related: Film, Space)
"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
- Jack Vance
(Related: Thought, Airplanes, Automobiles)
"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."
- Judith Viorst
(Related: Love, Accident, Tax)
"I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Home)
"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Automobiles, Driving, Living)
"In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods."
- Zack Wamp
(Related: Post, Safety, Security, World)
"We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there."
- John Warner
(Related: Help, Will)
"If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake."
- Dennis Weaver
(Related: Automobiles, Driving, Help)
"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd."
- Ida B. Wells
(Related: Body, Mob)
"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American."
- Ida B. Wells
(Related: Intelligence, Mob, Spirit)
"Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob."
- Ida B. Wells
(Related: Country, Crime, Mob)
"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."
- Ida B. Wells
(Related: Mob, Murder, Spirit, Vote)
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
- Rebecca West
(Related: Art, Intelligence, Mob, Reason)
"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Authority, Mob, Necessity)
"In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention."
- Rowan D. Williams
(Related: Life, Health, Idea, Anxiety, Attention, Care, Contrast, Old, Routine)
"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."
- Gary Wills
(Related: Leadership, Goal, Goals, Followers)
"Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal."
- Gary Wills
(Related: Leadership, Goal)
"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."
- Leonard Woodcock
(Related: Living, Now, Wages)
"The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns."
- Brock Yates
(Related: Cause, Effect)
"Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction."
- Owen D. Young
(Related: Destruction, Emotions)
"I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true."
- Robin Yount
(Related: Dreams, Being, World)
"For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location."
- Mortimer Zuckerman
(Related: Home, Ability, Baby, Job, Now)
"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Peace, War, Force)