Savitt Family Foundation Quotes & Sayings

In the middle to late 1970s, when Putin joined the KGB, the secret police, like all Soviet institutions, was undergoing a phase of extreme bloating. Its growing number of directorates and departments were producing mountains of information that had no clear purpose, application, or meaning. An entire army of men and a few women spent their lives compiling newspaper clippings, transcripts of tapped telephone conversations, reports of people followed and trivia learned, and all of this made its way to the top of the KGB pyramid, and then to the leadership of the Communist Party, largely unprocessed and virtually unanalyzed. — Masha Gessen

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs. — Horace Mann

My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith. — Ibn Arabi

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth. — Joe Craft

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility. — Madeleine Albright

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me. — Tatum O'Neal

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life. — Q'orianka Kilcher

Good individuals cannot exist without good education, and good education cannot exist without good laws, — Niccolo Machiavelli

The BIG push means being able to develop and sustain momentum toward your goal; it is the process of actively replacing excuses with winning habits, the ultimate excuses blockers. Moreover, it is being willing to go to the wall for what you want or believe in, to push beyond your previous mental and physical limits, no matter what it takes. — Lorii Myers

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget. — Mike Thompson

Contentment is better than divinations or visions. — Walter Savage Landor

I have a weak spot for late '60s-early '70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is 'Right On,' a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics. — Doug Aitken

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life — Lewis Mumford