Japheth Lineage Quotes & Sayings

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful. — Bill Ayers

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't. — Margot Asquith

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization. — Gwen Moore

It's hard enough to give fearlessly, and it's even harder to receive fearlessly.
But within that exchange lies the hardest thing of all:
To ask. Without shame.
And to accept the help that people offer.
Not to force them.
Just to let them. — Amanda Palmer

I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't know who I was going to get, in the sense that I didn't know what he was going to be like. And so I was pleasantly surprised that he is this kind of laid-back guy. — James Frain

The English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon. — Ruth Rendell

A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history. — H.G.Wells

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples. — Wallace Stegner