Kanal Quotes & Sayings

I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo. — Horst Faas

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed. — Fiona Apple

These letters, and then words, and then sentences, that are written on your manuscript are all answers to questions. Writing is nothing but a long journey of confronting questions. Accomplishment will bring you peace, but will not make a writer of you. — Rabisankar Bal

But as nearly every denomination in the United States faces declining membership and waning influence, Christians may need to get used to the idea of measuring significance by something other than money, fame, and power. No one ever said the fruit of the Spirit is relevance or impact or even revival — Rachel Held Evans

He loved the raw strength of Haris, his edge of desperation, the need he couldn't hide. — Barbara Elsborg

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor. — Eric Hoffer

What is a man?
What is a woman?
Why are men and women attracted to each other?
Why do they desire each other?
Love ... what is it? — Yuu Watase

If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness. — Robin Sharma

There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean. — Brad Meltzer

Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken. — Karl Popper

[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved — Jonathan Franzen

He broke off, and she fancied that he looked sad. She could not be sure, for the Machine did not transmit nuances of expression. It only gave a general idea of people- an idea that was good enough for all practical purposes, Vashti thought.
The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufactures of artificial fruit. Something "good enough" had long since been accepted by our race. — E. M. Forster

The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans. — Glenn Greenwald