Absente Sme Betekenis Quotes & Sayings

The Media are corporations so ... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on. — Noam Chomsky

Almost everyone believes that at some level birthmothers make a choice to give their babies away ... Adoption is rarely about mothers' choices; it is, instead, about the abject choicelessness of some resourceless women. — Rickie Solinger

I could reply. I could tell him that a metaphor is inadequate in the face of a bloodbath. That a Platonic inclination for dying doesn't balance out the serious decision to kill. That through the ages there has never been a great historical infamy committed for which there couldn't be found a symbol just as big, to justify it. That, in consequence, we would do well to pay attention to great certainties, to great invocations, to the great 'droughts' and 'rains'. That the temper of our most violent outbursts might benefit from a shade less enthusiasm.
I could reply. But what good would it do? I have a simple, resigned, inexplicable sensation that everything that is happening is in the normal order of things and that I am awaiting a season that will come and pass
because it has come and passed before. — Mihail Sebastian

Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats. — Terry Jones

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning. — Arnold Schoenberg

Like Rabe'a, I didn't think people should believe in God because of heaven and hell. But I didn't feel a need to run around with a torch. You can't burn down a made-up place. — John Green

You can't stay young forever, but you can be immature for the rest of your life. — Linda Thompson

Try not to wake up on fire. — Eugene Mirman

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time — Karin Slaughter

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings. — Fred Rogers

But no, he had to smell as good as he tasted, earthy and natural, like sex in the woods. He'd make a fantastic air freshener for some guy's man cave.
Ione, Larissa (2014-12-16). Revenant (Demonica) (p. 71). Grand Central Publishing. Kindle Edition. — Larissa Ione