Julita Bamberger Quotes & Sayings

We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they be. — Lewis Howard Latimer

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate. — Kenneth Clarke

Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time? — Yiyun Li

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. — Erich Fromm

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope

In the artifacts that are conscious, memories of vanished lives still flicker. Tissues that were changed without dying hold the moment that a boy heard his sister was leaving home. They hold multiplication tables. They hold images of sexuality and violence and beauty. They hold the memories of flesh that no longer exists. They hold metaphors: mitochondria, starfish, Hitler's-brain-in-a-jar, hell realm. They dream. Structures that were neurons twitch and loop and burn and dream. Images and words and pain and fear, endless. — James S.A. Corey

The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable. — Richelle E. Goodrich

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. — Paul

She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them. — Julie Anne Peters

I would argue, by the way, if the French citizens knew exactly what that was about, they would be applauding and popping Champagne corks. It's a good thing. It keeps the French safe. It keeps the U.S. safe. — Mike Rogers

You want fantasy? Here's one ... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds.
And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life. — Terry Pratchett

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people. — Sherman Alexie

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity. — Susan Bysiewicz

Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot. — Benedict Freedman