Dammning Quotes & Sayings

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place. — Jessica Lynch

Endless moments like this stretching before us. I loved him deeply, but I never really knew that every second we had together was a gift until he was gone. — Kristin Harmel

It hadn't been easy to reach the city where Jacob had grown up. The borders in his world were more tightly guarded than the island of the Fairies. — Cornelia Funke

All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion — Chantal Mouffe

General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense, but this is specific welfare. This justifies the whole welfare state - the military industrial complex, the welfare to foreigners, the welfare state that imprisons our people and impoverishes our people and gives us our recession. — Ron Paul

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random. — John Guare

The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning ... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect. — Ansel Adams

Your neck smells like cheese,' I said.
'Oh,' He said, 'that's my cheese cologne. I have a whole selection. Chedder, American, Swiss. — Kristin Walker

Or the people they call terrorists. If it's you who's in the foreign country, and the people you're waiting for arguably have more of a right to be there than you do, who's the terrorist? — Ayelet Waldman

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years. — James Montgomery