Heda Margolius Quotes & Sayings

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

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me. — Kevin Hart

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

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job ... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter. — Andrea Mitchell

I had to create some good work habits and attitude. — S. Truett Cathy

If coincidence can give, it can take. — Dean Koontz

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

This is not at all funny."
"Which is why I'm not laughing. — Dani Alexander

Leadership is not for the faint of heart — Bill Hybels

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

practically in tears — No One

Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but ... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly.
"Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them. — Charlaine Harris

I chop the broccoli into pieces with ZigZag Knife, sometimes I swallow some when Ma's not looking and she says, "Oh, no, where's that big bit gone?" but she's not really mad because raw things make us extra alive. — Emma Donoghue

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform. — Art Garfunkel

I was also trying to control my mouth from opening and asking what was happening at the same time control my body from hurling itself in his arms. — Kristen Ashley

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction. — Helmut Jahn

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

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

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible. — Karen Thompson Walker

I moved around the couch and started to dig through his piles in search of the device. "Wouldn't you be more comfortable at a table?" Without looking at me his lips curved slightly as he said, "I wanted to be near you." His answer surprised me. The other men in the room weren't paying attention to us. He hadn't said it for them. He'd meant it. — Laurelin Paige