Heda Quotes & Sayings

The mind is made up by what it feeds upon. — William James

When every action and thought is geared to the building of a new society, there is little room left for feelings. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

I know there was nothing anyone could do. But they were taking away an 86-year-old grandmother to a horrible death, and the village where she had lived all her life, where everybody loved her, had just looked on. The only thing that anyone had had to say was, 'Mrs. Bloch, don't be afraid ... — Heda Margolius Kovaly

A democracy, mistakes can eventually be rectified and people who perpetrate stupidity or even atrocities are regarded, with the passage of time, more with tolerance and pity than with hate. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago. — Lois Greiman

Love and hope are infinitely more powerful than hate and fury. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. — Bible

If everyone were a hero, what would courage be worth? — Heda Margolius Kovaly

Oh honey, we're all fuckups in our own special ways. — Eleanor Brown

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, .. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

I'm an American, first and foremost, and I'm very proud - I said, I've said, I've said to my beloved friend and colleague John McCain, a friend of 25 years, "John, I love you, but I'm not just going to vote for you on the basis of our affection or friendship." And I've said to Barack Obama, "I admire you. I'll give you all the advice I can. But I'm not going to vote for you just because you're black." We, we have to move beyond this. — Colin Powell

Baby's room should be close enough to your room so that you can hear baby cry, unless you want to get some sleep, in which case baby's room should be in Peru. — Dave Barry

Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

When faced with complexity, it is reassuring to tell ourselves that we can uncover and understand every facet of every problem if we just try hard enough. But that's a fallacy. The better approach, I believe, is to accept that we can't understand every facet of a complex environment and to focus, instead, on techniques to deal with combining different viewpoints. If we start with the attitude that different viewpoints are additive rather than competitive, we become more effective because our ideas or decisions are honed and tempered by that discourse. In a healthy, creative culture, the people in the trenches feel free to speak up and bring to light differing views that can help give us clarity. — Ed Catmull

She was yet another proof to me that nothing limits a person more than what was then called a clearly-defined world view. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

I live on the water and I have jet skis. Skiing is my biggest thing, I've been skiing since I was five-years-old. — Cedric Gervais

Work hard now and reap the benefits later!
^^^ so wrong!
Work hard later and rip the benefits now!
(What do you want to do when you grow old, travel the world? Instead, get a cosy work place and enjoy the safe life!) — Bogdan Vaida