Maitino Rare Quotes & Sayings

To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in their thoughts and imaginations at least) to face any kind of suffering when motivated by noble aims like the vague and tremendous concept of freedom ... Or, in their humility (or sloth - who knows?) men are quite willing to leave decisions to others 'who know more about it than we do. — Dorothy Day

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause. — J.G. Ballard

You bet I'm trouble. — Kiersten White

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. — Michael Leunig

Ideas are not free-floating in consciousness but are grounded in the social world in the most concrete ways. — James Davison Hunter

Without somebody to watch me, laugh at my jokes, tell me what to do, ask me questions, race me to the river, make me guess the names of birds, or challenge me to count the silvery fish in a school, there was nothing for me to do. Without somebody to be somebody to, it was as though I wasn't somebody myself. — Michael Dorris

There are eighteen-million cracks in the ceiling. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

From now on, no one rewires my mind but me. — Scott Westerfeld