Fredericka Wagner Quotes & Sayings

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. — Stephen Vizinczey

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask. — Juliette Binoche

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike

You don't so much as become an atheist as find out that's what you are. There's no moment of conversion. You don't suddenly think 'I don't believe this anymore.' You essentially find you don't believe it. — Christopher Hitchens

The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions. — Durgesh Satpathy

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself. — Martha Quinn

Every human soul is different. We are all shaped by both experience and design, by callings and the way our gifts mold our inner lives. Every soul has a bent, a drift, a way it wants to go. And when hard times come and the inner person writhes in torment, the soul reaches for what it thinks is anesthesia, for something to medicate the pain. — Stephen Mansfield

A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold. — Lewis Mumford

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Once you are aware that you're dreaming, you recover your power to change the dream whenever you choose. — Miguel Ruiz

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered ... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies ... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. — Edwin Percy Whipple

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it. — Lady Bird Johnson