Cemocracy Quotes & Sayings

I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope. — Desmond Tutu

I make up as little as possible. I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are and to look where things have gone missing. And it's really in the gap - it's in the erasures - that I think the novelist can best go to work because inevitably in history in any period, we know a lot about what happened, but we may be far hazier on why it happened. And there's always the question, why did it happen the way it did? Where was the turning point? — Hilary Mantel

Understanding leads to acceptance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Safe guidelines for your conversation. Mr. Wrangle went one step further. He doesn't feel it would be emotionally beneficial - for either one of you - to converse at all. He feels that poignant dialogue will merely make your separation — Tom Robbins

Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them. — Golda Meir

My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn't mentioned such an important plot point. — Nalo Hopkinson

Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set. — Jessica Lange

When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs. — Peter Max

Every choice has a purpose. Every move is deliberate. I am deliberating creating my business and life every day. — Sheri Kaye Hoff

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. — Karl Kraus

What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone. — Amanda Grace

The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy. — Jason Collins

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct. — Mike Singletary