Scorekeeper In Politics Quotes & Sayings

Wiesenthal admitted to Bauer that he had invented a historical fantasy in order to give the Holocaust a more universal cast and to find a number which was almost as large as the Jewish death toll but not quite equal to it. When Elie Wiesel challenged Wiesenthal to provide some historical proof that five million non-Jews were murdered in the camps, Wiesenthal, rather than admit that he invented the five million number, accused Wiesel of 'Judeocentrism,' being concerned only about Jews.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 9 — Deborah E. Lipstadt

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. — Jack Kerouac

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was. — Jane Smiley

Our government is a bird with two right wings ... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The truth is, we can't see what we aren't looking at. — David Sturt

An animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do. — Steven Spielberg

we're equal before the law - if we pay the same amount. — David Lagercrantz

I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful. — Deepika Padukone

It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God
the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts. — Henrik Ibsen

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty. — Summer Altice

All I want in this life are three...
a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,
a breath of opium,
and thee. — Roman Payne

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity. — Earl Nightingale

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty. — Terry Tempest Williams

Julian Street in his book, Abroad At Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures, painted a grim picture of Western Kansas as he traveled across the area in 1914. Street saw only a drab, treeless wasteland of brown and gray---"nothing, nothing, nothing"--images of incessant wind, violent cyclones, dust storms, and tragic desolation. As the train he was riding approached the small town of Monotony, which he felt was appropriately named, he listened sympathetically to the remarks of a fellow passenger: "God! How can they stand living out here? I'd rather be dead! — Daniel Fitzgerald

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics. — William Monahan