Pittaking Quotes & Sayings

The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the same in every country. After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. But, in all honesty, anti-Semitism in France has always remained on a minimal level, at the verbal level only. It never went as far as pogroms. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Sometimes you're not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that's okay, because the Earth is generously patient. — Jaree Francis

They told us that the world was too fragile for change. — Aprille Legacy

America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her Ingersoll. — Walt Whitman

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before. — Herbert Hoover

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? — Bruce Sterling

When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing ... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know ... — Gaston Bachelard

And when I started to cry as I pulled into my driveway,it was coming down hard enough that I could pretend that it was only the rain hitting my face, and not the fact that I'd just lost another friend. — Morgan Matson

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different. — Rene Russo