99 Times 11 Quotes & Sayings

People need space to survive. — Ingrid Betancourt

So many times after a catastrophe like 9/11, Estonia in Sweden, the Holocaust or whatever, we are so fond of lifting up the hero examples, but actually 99 percent of survivors have done something that they feel very guilty about. — Ruben Ostlund

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot. — Cory Doctorow

Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every increase in objectivity takes us further from reality. — Nanavira Thera

It's a good thing about George R.R. Martin: He's prepared to kill off the main guys. You don't get the feeling that the good guy is going to last forever, like James Bond. — Sean Bean

Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies
but not before they have been hanged. — Heinrich Heine

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution. — Mark Weisbrot