Formella Quotes & Sayings

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work. — Anthony Zinni

In any war, a tremendous amount of collateral damage is inevitable. Black and brown people are the principal targets in this war; white people are collateral damage. — Michelle Alexander

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature - and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning - and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or The Fountainhead that they will betray: it is their own souls. AYN RAND New York, May 1968 — Ayn Rand

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial. — Karen Thompson Walker

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household. — Mohamed ElBaradei

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. — Learned Hand

Each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new. — Eloise Lownsbery

Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words 'to father' have such a different meaning from the words 'to mother'. — Claire Fuller

I love my situation as a spectator. The actors are only a little bit ahead of the audience. The audience discovers the episode when it's screened, but we actors only discover the episode when we get the script, two weeks ahead of shooting. Until then, we know nothing of the evolution of our characters. — Richard Sammel

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither. — D.H. Lawrence

Every thought, every action, every statement should have meaning. — Carlos Wallace