Sintered Bronze Quotes & Sayings

After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested. — James Hansen

The decision to use torture as a terror of retribution gives an inner satisfaction to the person who practises it, even if this is difficult for him to accept openly. Having been injured and humiliated by aggression, he can now humiliate in his turn those whom he considers to be his aggressors, and rediscover his self-esteem. As an ex-soldier of the Algerian War explains, forty years after the events: 'You could feel a certain form of jubilation while being present at such extreme scenes . . . Doing to a body whatever you feel like doing to it.' Reducing the other to a state of complete impotence gives you a feeling of supreme power. This feeling is one which torture gives you more than murder does, since the latter does not last: once dead, the other becomes an inert object and no longer produces that jubilation which stems from fully triumphing over the will of another, without his ceasing to exist. — Tzvetan Todorov

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. — Mignon McLaughlin

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well. — Sarah Dessen

Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football. — Celinda Lake

What Albert Einstein termed optical delusion,
The Indians termed Maya or Illusion. — Mohit K. Misra

The noise is greater then the nuts. — George Herbert

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it. — Lu Xun

Her faith in you survives her, — Lauren Kate

I lived with the shadows, knowing only they would truly understand what I was feeling. — Nicole Belanger

If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country. — Ian Beattie