America How Would Secession Quotes & Sayings

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. — Jon Corzine

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. — Siobhan Fahey

Why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not the right way to start at all. Imaginative literature is not necessarily about writing who we are or what we know or what our identity is about. We should teach young people and ourselves to expand our hearts and write what we can feel. We should get out of our cultural ghetto and go visit the next one and the next. — Elif Shafak

Rock and Roll is instant coffee. — Bob Geldof

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson. — Paloma Faith

Tocqueville was correct in his rendition of how the Constitution was formed, but he likely never dreamed that an American president would ever send an invading army to kill some 300,000 of his own citizens in order to destroy the right of secession, a right that all of America's founding fathers held as sacrosanct and that was at the very heart of the American system of government. — Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Moral character is the DNA of success and happiness. — Frank Sonnenberg

I do have an ego, but I acknowledge the help I get. — Anton Corbijn

The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders! — Charles Colson

Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life. — Willi Smith

I fall asleep with the sound of her voice echoing in my head, and a feeling in my chest like someone is scooping my heart out with a spoon. — Melissa Keil

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s. — L. Neil Smith

Focused men are painfully attractive. — Catherine Lowell

The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order. — Lesslie Newbigin

mendacity." He then introduced his son to the President, — David McCullough

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty. — Lionel Trilling

Are you sizeist? — John Connolly