Devangi Chopra Quotes & Sayings

But to secure freedom, entire and absolute freedom, she was ever ready to make any sacrifice: ties affected her with a discomfort that seemed really akin to physical pain, and she avoided them
ties of family or of affection, ties of habit or of thought
with all the strenuousness of which she was capable. — W. Somerset Maugham

When they are in power, whether in statehouses, Congress, or the White House, Republicans are magnetically drawn to practice political overreach along with scorched-earth tactics, be it through vote suppression, the K Street Project to force lobbying firms to hire only Republicans, or outing a covert CIA agent in their own administration to settle political scores, as happened to Valerie Plame. When they are out of power they focus single-mindedly on seizing up the wheels of government to prove to the American people that government just doesn't work - at least, when the GOP is out of power. These take-no-prisoners tactics flow naturally from an embittered, Manichaean mind-set. This mentality has grave implications for the health of our constitutional system. — Anonymous

Only certain portions of the line had to undergo carnage in the French style, but knowledge of it was all-pervasive. Everything the 19th River Guard knew came from quiet meetings in the communications trenches, conversations with sleepless, bitter infantrymen who had been transferred up from the fiercer fighting in the south. If some of the River Guard were on the edge, many of the regular infantry had gone over it long before. Especially disturbing to the naval contingent were reports from down below that Italian troops now were shot quite casually for disciplinary reasons, and that the Italian generals, like their French counterparts, were executing men in decimations for crimes they had not committed. Men with families were pulled from the ranks along with equally mystified adolescents and put to death for acts attributed to others whom they had never seen. — Mark Helprin

The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other. — Peter Drucker

Great lives never go out; they go on. — Benjamin Harrison

There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat. — Daria Werbowy

Mark Spitz backed away from the fucking corn. — Colson Whitehead

Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are. — Jerry Della Femina

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else. — Oprah Winfrey

But I've got a gun," she said, twirling it on two fingers.
"A gun with bullets is worse than no gun at all. — Lissa Price

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. — Will Rogers

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving. — Bill De Blasio