Kvazidemokratska Quotes & Sayings

The tale of America coming out of the Great Depression and not only surviving but actually transforming itself into an economic giant is the stuff of legend. But the part that gives me goose bumps is what we did with all that wealth: over several generations, our country built the greatest middle class the world had ever known. We built it ourselves, using our own hard work and the tools of government to open up more opportunities for millions of people. We used it all - tax policy, investments in public education, new infrastructure, support for research, rules that protected consumers and investors, antitrust laws - to promote and expand our middle class. The spectacular, shoot-off-the-fireworks fact is that we succeeded. — Elizabeth Warren

Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited. — Giles Matthey

Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard. — Marva Collins

But time was a beast, a big, indolent immovable beast that wasn't interested in my efforts at hastening it in any direction. — Piper Kerman

The true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own. — Isak Dinesen

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times. — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form. — Maimonides

Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured. — William J. Clinton

Let it be our great concern to see on what terms we stand with our Bibles, whether they justify us or condemn us now; for the Judge of all will proceed by that rule. — Matthew Henry

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car. — Aubrey De Grey

The days passed, one after another, measured out in an unbroken, never-ending rhythm.Seemingly infinite, but gone in the blink of an eye - like waves crashing on the shore, or the seasons passing.
Or the beating of a heart. — Jessi Kirby

There is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us. — Leigh Bardugo

I never had a career before I had the lips, so my lips have had their own career! — Lisa Rinna