Hedy Epstein Quotes & Sayings

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. — Azar Nafisi

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen. — Wayne Newton

Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no reality without interpretation; just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear. — E.H. Gombrich

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand. — John Cheever

When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound. — Lewis Carroll

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. — John Yoo

If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner. — Michael Atiyah

The problem is not covenant theology in general, but covenantal nomism in particular. Wright's primary objection to the imputation of Christ's active obedience is that it's a category mistake: "If we use the language of the law-court, it make no sense whatever to say that the judge imputes, imparts, bequeaths, conveys or otherwise transfers his righteousness to either the plaintiff or the defendant. Righteousness is not an object, a substance or gas which can be passed across the courtroom ... To imagine the defendant somehow receiving the judge's righteousness is simply a category mistake." P.25 — Michael S. Horton

There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work. — Martina Arroyo

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you. — Swami Vivekananda

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years. — Swami Vivekananda

The sight which met her eyes held her frozen on the threshold, and the thought flashed across her mind that she knew now how it felt to die — Georgette Heyer

Anywhere. But he's out of his fucking mind if he thinks he's getting my Smurf. — J.A. Huss

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction. — John Brunner