Golafshani 2003 Quotes & Sayings

The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to cause injuries. Vietnam, nuclear weapons, police out of control are intentional forms of violence. The violence from the Right is aimed directly at people and the violence from the Left is aimed at institutions and symbols. — George Carlin

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that. — Tiger Woods

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another. — Lewis Buzbee

So you see, movies are really another dimension. — Cecilia Bartoli

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. — Frederick Douglass

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May. — Joseph Jarman

The revelation of loneliness, the omnipresent, unanswerable feeling that I was in a state of lack, that I didn't have what people were supposed to, and that this was down to some grave and no doubt externally unmistakable failing in my person: all this had quickened lately, the unwelcome consequence of being so summarily dismissed. I don't suppose it was unrelated, either, to the fact that I was keeling towards the midpoint of my thirties, an age at which female aloneness is no longer socially sanctioned and carries with it a persistent whiff of strangeness, deviance and failure. — Olivia Laing

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities. — Igor Luksic

We sure are," Celeste replied sweetly. The man sort of melted a little, you could see it in his eyes. Ah. So this was her game. The captain paused a moment and then — Kiera Cass

On thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held more for him than just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument against the notion that things just happen. — Charles Frazier

We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessary the truth. — Deb Caletti

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves. — Timothy Radcliffe

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world. — Ani DiFranco