Hazier Things Quotes & Sayings

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed. — Russ Feingold

I make up as little as possible. I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are and to look where things have gone missing. And it's really in the gap - it's in the erasures - that I think the novelist can best go to work because inevitably in history in any period, we know a lot about what happened, but we may be far hazier on why it happened. And there's always the question, why did it happen the way it did? Where was the turning point? — Hilary Mantel

Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT. — Tim Gunn

If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed? — Zoe Heller

If I got married one day and settled down, I would love to have more children. — Rebecca Ferguson

A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.) — Sarah Lewis

If we are to build that Zion of which the prophets have spoken and of which the Lord has given mighty promise, we must set aside our consuming selfishness. We must rise above our love for comfort and ease, and in the very process of effort and struggle, even in our extremity, we shall become better acquainted with our God. - Gordon B. Hinckley — Gordon B. Hinckley

spoke into the mirror with a hardened, demanding voice. "Where's my cell phone?" he barked. — Walt Disney Company

Art should communicate with as many people as possible. — Madeleine L'Engle

I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show. — Johnny Vegas

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. — Ha Jin

And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the light, and keep moving forward in faith. — Seth Adam Smith

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for. — Paul Lutus