Aviva Drescher Quotes & Sayings

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. — Frank Herbert

If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist. — Ozzy Osbourne

When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away. — Jodie Foster

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical. — Pope Benedict XVI

Death stoops over me.
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine. — Elton John

I'm only thin-skinned when somebody says bad things that are false. For instance, if you hit me about something that's true, all right, the bankruptcy - I used that as a tool. I didn't ever file for bankruptcy. — Donald Trump

You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders. — Jack Welch

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human. — Bijou Phillips

For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing. — Lady Gaga

I persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me, and overlook my personal deformity. Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship? — Mary Shelley

The sparrow still falls. — Mary Doria Russell

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived
nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died
through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain. The great question that faced him this morning was whether or not had had ever, really, been present at his life. — James Baldwin

I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large. — Philip Schultz