Jemandem Den Quotes & Sayings

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday. — Dick Gephardt

I intend to have protections for the L.G.B.T. community in there. I'm not going to make choices between that community and the non-L.G.B.T. community. — Patrick Leahy

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately. — Theresa May

There's a thing in music that wants to change people. A thing that speaks to the soul. And there's a thing in people that listens, and changes when the music speaks. — Katherine Lampe

The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete. — Theodore Levitt

O virgin mother, daughter of thy Son,
humble beyond all creatures and more exalted;
predestined turning point of God's intention;
Thy merit so ennobled human nature
that its divine Creator did not scorn
to make Himself the creature of His creature.
The Love that was rekindled in Thy womb
sends for the warmth of the eternal peace
within whose ray this flower has come to bloom.
Here to us, thou art the noon and scope
of Love revealed; and among mortal men,
the living fountain of eternal hope. — Dante Alighieri

linguist called Alla who advised us, among other things, to treat our more stupid students with sympathy, "as if they had cancer." While — Elif Batuman

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future. — Richard M. Weaver