Ryszarda Kanin Quotes & Sayings

Nazism did not destroy civil society. Bolshevism did destroy civil society. This is one of the reasons for the "miracle" of German recovery, and for the continuation of Russian vulnerability and failure. Stalin did not destroy civil society. Lenin destroyed civil society. — Martin Amis

I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens. — Jennifer Pahlka

If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals. — Roxane Gay

I read once that you get deja vu when the two halves of your brain process things at different speeds: the right half a few seconds before the left, or vice versa ... that would explain the weird double feeling that it leaves you with, like the world is splitting in half
or you are. — Lauren Oliver

For 'the human' is a medium of possible divine revelation. — Edward Schillebeeckx

Gabe crouches over the radio, trying to get it to pick up one of the mainland music stations, which only works when the weather is just right and the appropriate slain sacrifices have been made. — Maggie Stiefvater

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches. — Henry David Thoreau

Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever. — John Logan

Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it? — Ivan Glasenberg

It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader. — L.A. Weatherly

I love you exactly as you are. — Tahereh Mafi

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov

Intellectuals ponder, philosophize, interpret, and all this is essential to our shared experience, however, to feel the warmth of what lays at our feet within all that can be felt by the heart, is in an instant more powerful than mere words, we need to feel the words, capture the essence of what we see, and revel in the tastes of nature, and let ourselves allow our hearts to sing out loud, wild, and free. — Mark Donnelly

If the heart did not feel, then there was no hope for the rest. Feeling was necessary to passion and caring and belief. — Jacquelyn Frank

(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and ... it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together. — Wendy Mass