God Forbid They Be Held Accountable Quotes & Sayings

At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters in this world, so I had a strong bias toward actually writing, and worrying about research later. In other words, I was afraid that I'd devote a year or two of my life to grinding through Kant and Husserl, then discover that there simply was no novel to be written here. — Neal Stephenson

Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves — Sarah Grand

I'd like to die with my boots on. — Daniel Berrigan

I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland. — Martin Naughton

America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value. — Barack Obama

Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer. — Edward Hoagland

If you say, 'I really love this girl except for this one thing--if I could just change this one thing, then everything would be perfect,' then you've already lost her. — Michael Tucker

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? — Marquis De Custine

Seeing with your soul will bless you with greater capacity for awe and wonder, for joy and for appreciation of all the quiet miracles that happen all around us every day when we stop to look and admire. — Catherine Carrigan

The miser robs himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

You can't have living without dying. — Natalie Babbitt

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. — Rumi

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist. — Noam Chomsky

When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers. — Sheena Iyengar