Fishelis Quotes & Sayings

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look ... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell. — Gary Oldman

To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin. — Richelle E. Goodrich

From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him. — W.N.P. Barbellion

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle

I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike. — Bo Burnham

People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was. — Namie Amuro

Galeano emphasized the import of nature in the European "conquest/invasion" of Latin America and the subsequent and ongoing colonial project. And he "located" the divorce of nature and people's communion within - and as fundamental to - the venture of Western civilization.1 The growing recognition, particularly in the "Souths" of the world today, that Western civilization is in crisis, and the propositions coming from Abya-Yala (the name, originally from the Cuna language, that indigenous peoples collectively give to the Americas today) for radically distinct life-models and visions interlaced with and in nature, give Galeano's words pragmatic substance. Galeano's words also, in a sense, establish the importance of location and place; that is to say, of the place and location from which we think the world, and act, struggle, and live in and with it. — Federico Luisetti

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction. — Rusty Schweickart

Freedom rings where opinions clash. — Adlai E. Stevenson

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. — Christopher Hitchens

If you wish to see it as it should be seen, don't wait - there's little time. How do you get there? Well, I couldn't tell you. — Edward Abbey

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear. — Joel Edgerton

Never judge a book by its price"
This is the price an author pays to be known. — Claire Hamelin Manning