Ligner Yiddish Quotes & Sayings

Moynihan, when he was ambassador to the United Nations, produced the same effect when he attacked the Third World. These attacks aroused great admiration here; for example, when he denounced Idi Amin of Uganda as a "racist murderer." The question is not whether Idi Amin is a racist murderer. No doubt the appellation is correct. The question is, what does it mean for Moynihan to make this accusation and for others to applaud his honesty and courage in doing so? Who is Moynihan? He served in four administrations, those of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford - that is to say, administrations that were guilty of racist murder on a scale undreamed of by Idi Amin. Imagine that some minor functionary of the Third Reich had correctly accused someone of being a racist murderer. — Noam Chomsky

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one. — Dean Smith

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. — Virginia Woolf

Samovar is the most essential thing in Russia, especially at times of particularly awful, sudden, and eccentric catastrophes and misfortunes — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused. — Dean Koontz

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in. — Amanda Lindhout

If you donate to the mainland, it's not as simple as giving money. You need a lot of psychological resilience. — Ronnie Chan

How sad to be the last of your kind, flashing your signal in the dark, alone, to nothingness. But I was not alone, was I? I had learned that there were others of my kind out there. — Jacqueline Kelly

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many. — Ovid

As we emulate His example, we will bless lives, including our own. — Thomas S. Monson

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body. — W.B.Yeats

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin

The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present. — Henry Cloud