Snipedown Quotes & Sayings

How can you not be affected by disappointments relating to work you love so much? — Amanda Crew

We need more hope. We need more mercy. We need more justice. — Bryan Stevenson

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. — Criss Jami

Like a firework, a person's life flashed brightest right before expiration. — Katherine McIntyre

Self-parody is the first portent of age. — Larry McMurtry

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer. — Virginia Postrel

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters". — James Marcus

The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers. If you can't handle the thought that the President lies to the public for all kinds of reasons, you couldn't stay in the government at that level, or you're made aware of it, a week. ... The fact is Presidents rarely say the whole truth - essentially, never say the whole truth - of what they expect and what they're doing and what they believe and why they're doing it and rarely refrain from lying, actually, about these matters. — Daniel Ellsberg

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk — Celine Dion

In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged. — Susan Griffin

You can rely on corporate funded researchers to cover up inconvenient truths. — Steven Magee

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. — Henry Anatole Grunwald