Overpraising Quotes & Sayings

The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry. — Peter Garrett

War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of child pleading, the smell of smoke and fear. Women survivors of war are not the single image portrayed on the television screen, but the glue that holds families and countries together. Perhaps by understanding women, and the other side of war ... we will have more humility in our discussions of wars ... perhaps it is time to listen to womens side of history. — Zainab Salbi

I'm not someone who wakes up at 6 A.M. to go to the gym. — Monica Bellucci

No team is complete without a good technician, and the word for an incomplete team is usually fatality. — Mira Grant

Kisses were better than potions. — Gail Carson Levine

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television. — Michel Houellebecq

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune. — Andrew Tobias

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. — Robert Musil

In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food — Lord Acton

Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations. — Martin Heinrich

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal. — Franz Grillparzer

The West can only try to destroy Russia and China internally, through horrendous sets of tricks, propaganda and toxic lies. But now even such a scenario is unlikely. — Andre Vltchek

But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I think I'm fortunate as an actor in that I do seem to get opportunities to play roles that aren't necessarily typical of what I've done before. — Martin Henderson

I used to be someone.

Someone named Jenna Fox.

That's what they tell me. But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with. More than the video clips they make me watch.

More. But I'm not sure what. — Mary E. Pearson