Shalena Smith Quotes & Sayings

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about? — Nick Denton

What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor
inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing
permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own. I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children. — Howard Zinn

And if you ask how I regret that parting?
It is like the flowers falling at spring's end,
confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking
There is no end of things in the heart. — Ezra Pound

The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan. — Ernest Holmes

Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race. — Barack Obama

A moment's pain can be a lifetime's gain. — Leo Tolstoy

We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything that we love. When you're beginning to rot a little bit, all of the videos crammed into your head, all of the extensions that extend your various powers, are going to being to seem a little secondary. — Gregory Stock

If you cannot see it, you will not be it — Akosua Dardaine Edwards

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. — Bertolt Brecht

If it's something everyone knows, I can't afford to ask. — Patrick Rothfuss