#phenomenon

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. ↗

— Jan Morris

#beirut #impossible #perhaps #phenomenon #quite

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#entertainment #life #objects #people #phenomenon

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. ↗

— Julian Assange

#important #increase #only #phenomenon #these

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon. ↗

— John Astin

#association #difficult #feedback #get #gomez

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#authority #day #decade #defiance #established

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#corrective #current #does #drab #either

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#cannot #causes #conditions #consequently #each

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#comes #despotic #elected #general #hateful

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american #europe #hear #here #i

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#civilization #fear #great #may #out