Buergenthal Thomas Quotes & Sayings

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory. — Emil Cioran

Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved?
el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her. — Nawal El Saadawi

Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt. — Arvind Kejriwal

A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances. — Elizabeth McCracken

The wall defends itself. — George R R Martin

They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me. — Sammy Sosa

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God. — Karen Wheaton

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it. — Frank Iero

She cried for the girl who had never belonged. A girl who tried so hard, harder than anyone else, and still never had anything to show for it. — Marissa Meyer

But what else could we do but hope? that, after all, is human nature. — Thomas Buergenthal

There was something about the smallest gestures with him that made me feel like a teenager again. I told myself to just enjoy it. — Cindi Madsen

It seemed that we were condemned to be who we were, which was not a particularly good prospect. — Thomas Buergenthal

I looked at my surroundings but there wasn't much to see. In the feeble glow of the single bulb above the music rack, Feely and I might as well have been castaways on a tiny raft of light in a sea of darkness. By — Alan Bradley

.. . one cannot hope to protect mankind from crimes such as those that were visited upon us unless one struggles to brek the cycle of hatred and voilence that invariable leads to ever more suffering by innocent human beings. — Thomas Buergenthal

If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past? — Thomas Buergenthal

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. — Eric Hoffer

Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, being less painful, is more objective? — Thomas Buergenthal

That hope never left us, and it sustained us in the years to come, despite the fact that we had no good reason to expect our situation to improve. — Thomas Buergenthal

Humans crave knowledge. It's a defining element in our species. Something we don't see in animals in that same way, something we don't see in Scion, unless it's a craving that takes a very different form in execution. — Wildbow

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens. — Tanya Tucker