Miriam Defensor Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everywhere, now, there are objects like this glass of beer on the table there. When I see it, I feel like saying: "Enough." I realize quite well that I have — Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad ... To produce this horrible confection at home, start with our genocidal treatment of the Native Americans, add a couple hundred years of slavery, along with our denial of entry to Jewish refugees fleeing the death camps of the Third Reich, stir in our collusion with a long list of modern despots and our subsequent disregard for their appalling human rights records, add our bombing of Cambodia and the Pentagon Papers to taste, and then top with our recent refusals to sign the Kyoto protocol for greenhouse emissions, to support any ban on land mines, and to submit ourselves to the rulings of the International Criminal Court. The result should smell of death, hypocrisy, and fresh brimstone. — Sam Harris

We saw some resistance in the Wichita market until we partnered with EPIC. The increased awareness and information handed out regarding ethanol-enriched fuel made a huge difference in the public's perception. — Mike Hoffman

We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us. — Jacque Fresco

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty. — Calvin Coolidge

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them. — Michael Ian Black

There is nothing to achieve, there is only surrender to a life of service. — Reshad Feild

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being. — Jack Nicholson

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. — William Hazlitt

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. — Van Wyck Brooks

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

If we keep waiting until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of your lives. — Lemony Snicket

Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson. — Arthur C. Clarke

We passed Dee's empty bedroom. It looked like Pepto-Bismol threw up in there. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels. — Herbert Hoover