Raymond Ackerman Quotes & Sayings

Wow. This girl has some serious issues in the people-skills department. She's sort of a bitch, even though she's making an effort not to be one. — Colleen Hoover

Information technology alone cannot provide us an absolute shield against its evil twin disinformation technology. Our only protection is law, and that protection is available to us only if legitimate governments have the power to govern. — Paul Starr

ANYONE WHO HAS ever lived or worked in a corrupt dictatorship knows what happens. When the system is rigged, when ordinary citizens are powerless, and when whistle-blowers are pariahs at best, three things happen. First, the worst people rise to the top. They behave appallingly, and they wreak havoc. Second, people who could make productive contributions to society are incented to become destructive, because corruption is far more lucrative than honest work. And third, everyone else pays, both economically and emotionally; people become cynical, selfish, and fatalistic. Often they go along with the system, but they hate themselves for it. They play the game to survive and feed their families, but both they and society suffer. — Charles H. Ferguson

Malfoy," said Ron, sitting down on George's other side and glaring over at the Slytherin table. George looked up in time to see Malfoy pretending to faint with terror again. "That little git," he said calmly. "He wasn't so cocky last night when the dementors were down at our end of the train. Came running into our compartment, didn't he, Fred?" "Nearly wet himself," said Fred, with a contemptuous glance at Malfoy. — J.K. Rowling

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not ... — Aldo Leopold

True beauty is doing the right thing when you know no one is looking, — Joe Hart

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it. — Jerry Yang

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death! — Arthur Rimbaud

Love doesn't play fair," Tony lamented.
"Perhaps we do not understand the game," Aiden responded. — Ben Tousey

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art. — Joe Wright

I eat less, stretch, and work out. — Ted Danson

Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world. — Annabel Pitcher

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically. — Alan Ayckbourn

It is much easier to become a father than to be one. — Kent Nerburn

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. — Peter Kreeft