Etta Turner Quotes & Sayings

I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around. — Chris Christie

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous. — Fernando De Rojas

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page. — Willa Cather

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world. — Daniel H. Wilson

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president. — Hunter S. Thompson

To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege. — Leon Eisenberg

Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest that if the designs of creation have not here below been entirely frustrated, there should be found men who tend to their end in seeking and loving God. And nevertheless, because of human liberty, there should also be found other men who neglect God, their principle and their end, and yield to the seduction of created things. Such indeed is the spectacle which the history of the world unceasingly presents to us. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Root shook his head. "Pickles are cucumbers soaked in evil," he said with his mouth full. "I refuse to associate them with my cooking. — Shay Lynam

I am passionate about human rights. — Hannah Simone

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful. — Susan Sontag

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness! — Phillip Lim