Danishefskys Diene Quotes & Sayings

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever. — Simone Weil

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. — Clifford Geertz

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. — Italo Calvino

The most delightful and choicest pleasure is that which is hinted at, but never told. — Chretien De Troyes

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences. — Tony Robbins

This fundamental lack of connectedness allows people to act in trivial but incredibly selfish ways. Rachel Yehuda pointed to littering as the perfect example of an everyday symbol of disunity in society. "It's a horrible thing to see because it sort of encapsulates this idea that you're in it alone, that there isn't a shared ethos of trying to protect something shared," she told me. "It's the embodiment of every man for himself. It's the opposite of the military." In — Sebastian Junger

As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading. — Lincoln Chafee

How did you find me?" I asked.
"Easy.I looked in the school directory and called Frankie Hobbes this morning."
"You what?"
"He was okay, only called me 'Dickhead' twice."
I winced. "Sorry."
"Not a problem. From his viewpoint I deserve it." He shrugged. "He'll come around. We'll be down to one negative nickname per conversation by summer. — Melissa Jensen

How easily a parent's motive could be misconstrued by an injured child. — Susan Vreeland

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. — Albert Camus