The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.
The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.
I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.
Punishing achievement isn't gonna help anybody. Trying to equalize people by lowering the people at the top, that's not good. All that is is punitive. Why don't you find a way to elevate people at the bottom?
We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas
Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.
The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.
As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children trapped in a car that's sinking to the bottom of a lake and being impotent to save them'the black Americans have their own holocaust going on. You see the black man erasing black children from the landscape, you see black women desperately trying to get the black man's attention by wearing blonde hair and fake blue eyes, 500 years after he sold her and their children across the ocean.
The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter who is out there, maybe theyre not going to be as good, quote-unquote, as the starters may be, but the bottom line for us is to make sure were doing the right things.
Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.