Demirtas Quotes & Sayings

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly. — Wm. Paul Young

Tailor's work
the finishing of men's outside garments
was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind. — Lucy Larcom

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else. — Robert Reich

The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition ... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. — Adam Smith

This woman has had the hell beaten out of her. — John Grisham

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England. — Tracy Kidder

We who believe that children want to learn about the world, are good at it, and can be trusted to do it with very little adult coercion or interference, are probably no more than one percent of the population, if that. And we are not likely to become the majority in my lifetime. This doesn't trouble me much anymore, as long as this minority keeps on growing. My work is to help it grow.
— John Holt

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all. — Rory Bremner

When you do a normal film, you play the character for three months and you say goodbye to him. And then, when you watch the movie, you say, "I wish I could have done that differently. I wish I could have added this to it." — Taylor Lautner

Of course we're frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened. — William Golding

You want everything for your kids that you didn't have, but that that very desire can pollute and corrupt the good, basic American pluckiness, resourcefulness and down-to-earthness that we like to pride ourselves with, and result in aspirations of wealth and high culture. — Todd Haynes

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. — George Nelson

But there is something special, even beneficial, about showing up to a place with a particular people for a particular purpose. Community, connection, and conversation only happen when we actually experience life with others. — Brad Lomenick

I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance. — Matt Bomer

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine. — Yochai Benkler