Sargsyan Angela Quotes & Sayings

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. — Robert Shea

I don't speak well as the pictures in my head do. I can't... fully... the possibilities... It's too much to explain all at once. It would be world-changing. — Liz Braswell

... Being the worst confirmation of the worst kind of generation gap stereotype and parental disgust for their decadent, wastoid kids — David Foster Wallace

When he had gone home, he had been frightened, he had refused to face what he saw. But he had not really wanted to come home to a land, only to a pas; and not finding the past there, he had run away, fearing the reality, preferring the dream. — Nick Joaquin

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate. — Perry Anderson

If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open. — Sam Taylor-Wood

I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out. — Mary Parker Follett

PSA37.32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. PSA37.33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. — Anonymous

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. — Patti Smith

In fact, the proposition that man's species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man's essential nature. — Karl Marx

An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating. — Nick Harkaway

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom. — Rachel Griffiths

If you ever wanted to know how good life could be; start living it without the views and opinions of the world! — Mary Rodwell

To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was fighting to preserve imperialism as well as democracy, and that the bulk of the dying in Europe was being done by the Red Army at the service of Stalin. It is only in retrospect that we begin to simplify experience into myth - because we need stories to live by, because we want to honor our ancestors and our country instead of doubting them. In this way, a necessary but terrible war is simplified into a "good war," and we start to feel shy or guilty at any reminder of the moral compromises and outright betrayals that are inseparable from every combat. The best history writing reverses this process, restoring complexity to our sense of the past. — Adam Kirsch