Stampede Quotes

• Nuestro gobierno nos ha mantenido en un perpetuo estado de miedo -nos ha mantenido en una continua estampida de fervor patriótico- con el grito de grave emergencia nacional. Siempre ha habido algún terrible mal en casa o alguna monstruosa potencia extranjera que iba a engullirnos si no nos uníamos ciegamente a ella aportando los exorbitantes fondos exigidos. Sin embargo, en retrospectiva, estos desastres parecen no haber ocurrido nunca, parecen no haber sido nunca del todo reales.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Change, Military, Real

  Douglas MacArthur(30 th Of July de 1957), citado en "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964", editado por Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), 14 de junio de 2000.

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• Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.

  Rachel Cohn

  Fin

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.9, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Book, Thinking, Adventurous Life

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• Nuestro gobierno nos ha mantenido en un perpetuo estado de temor -nos ha mantenido en una continua estampida de fervor patriótico- al grito de grave emergencia nacional.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Paz, guerra, patriotismo

  Douglas MacArthur(30 th Of July de 1957), citado en "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964", editado por Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), 14 de junio de 2000.

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• And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.

  Spider Robinson

  Land, Perception, Age

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• The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Adventure, Adventurous Life, May

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• To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Jamaica, Class, White

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). "I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader", p. 125, Feminist Press at CUNY.

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• The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

  Maude Royden

  Fear, War, Play

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• The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  War, Blood, Roots

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• Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.

  George Monbiot

  Country, Fighting, Night

  "After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

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• Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Llamas, Judging, Coincidence

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

  Roger Ebert

  Crazy, Suicidal, Perfectly Good

  "Roger Ebert On Why 3D Movies Suck" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. April 29, 2010.

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• See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!" "Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!

  Rachel Caine

  Kitchen, Shane, Bite Me

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.87, Allison & Busby

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• There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Taken, White

  Programa de radio "This I Believe", thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.

  Lloyd Doggett

  Military, War, Smart

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• Mi creencia personal es que no debemos inclinarnos ante ningún objeto. Pero el Islam era consciente de esta debilidad humana y satisfizo esa necesidad mediante el Haj de besar una piedra. Una piedra es una piedra, pero se llenó el vacío y se convirtió en el objeto más sagrado. He realizado el Haj y he visto la devoción de la gente, que se enfrentaba a estampidas sólo para besar esa piedra.

  Asghar Ali Ingeniero

  Besar, Gente, Islam

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• El atractivo de las 500 Millas de Riverside se basaba en el espectáculo de ver a una multitud de coches de colores brillantes y rugientes corriendo por el campo como una manada de bueyes desbocados. Las carreras de coches de serie son, de hecho, como una estampida mecánica, y personalmente pensamos que quizá sea la forma más limpia de competición automovilística conocida por el hombre. Es, sin duda, el mayor espectáculo de las carreras en carretera.

  Brock Yates

  Men, Thinking, Motor Racing

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.102, MotorBooks International

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• The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.

  Ed Eyestone

  Running, Country, Horse

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• I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

  Noel Coward

  Sarcastic, Lips

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• Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.

  Alex Ferguson

  Simple, Player, Thinking

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• Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.

  Nas

  Light, Gold, Cameras

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