Kjersti Almli Quotes & Sayings

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established. — Thomas Paine

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay. — Wynton Marsalis

Its a town eat town world — Philip Reeve

And like the kids who'd taught Greg Glassman how to do gymnastics in the park, they were one another's teachers. "Coach believed that the moment you learned something, you had the responsibility to teach it," Amundson recalled in an account of CrossFit's founding days.7 "Everyone at CrossFit Santa Cruz learned the intricacies of the foundational movements, with the expectation they would teach the skills to others. — J.C. Herz

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page. — Christopher Guest

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose. — James Gray

I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior." — Terry Tempest Williams

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. — Jeff Greenfield

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have. — Max Greenfield

A meal was no more than a fragile defense against the inevitability of the next meal. Food itself could never answer the question of food; it only delayed the moment when the question would have to be asked in earnest. — Paul Auster

we can trust children to find out about the world, and that when trusted, they do find out. — John Holt

NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic. — Sarah Shahi