Ann Meyers Quotes & Sayings

Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war. — William Appleman Williams

Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic? — Dov Davidoff

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. — Bayard Taylor

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead. — Mason Cooley

Child, [death] is with us always," said Cadfael, patient beside him. "Last summer ninety-five men died here in the town, none of whom had done murder. For choosing the wrong side, they died. It falls upon blameless women in war, even in peace at the hands of evil men. It falls upon children who never did harm to any, upon old men, who in their lives have done good to many, and yet are brutally and senselessly slain. Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole."

"Such justice as we see is also but a broken shred. But it is our duty to preserve what we may, and fit together such fragments as we find, and take the rest on trust. — Ellis Peters

The insanely gorgeous competition documentary on surfing obsession, Step Into Liquid - directed by Dana Brown and photographed by John-Paul Beeghly in hypnotic gradations of aquamarine - will send you into a dream state. — Elvis Mitchell

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems. — Markus Zusak

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights. — Timothy Snyder

What we call the past is built on bits. - John Archibald Wheeler — James Gleick

The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover — Rexford Tugwell

No one can escape the grave. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist. — John Travolta

You're suggesting I should write of our experience? How? If I set down every word of the exchange between us during an hour, it would be unintelligible unless I wrote the story of my life to explain it. — Doris Lessing

The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30. — Thomas Cathcart