Symington Amendment Quotes & Sayings

The more you hope the more you hurt. You drop a letter in a Holy Communion envelope in the postbox and already you are waiting for a reply. Human beings were built for response. But human nature can't tolerate too much waiting. Between the emotion and the response falls the shadow, T.S. Eliot said, and that was the principle that inspired texting, that came up with the shortest possible time, basically as fast as Sheila Geary's two thumbs could hammer ILY on a tiny keyboard and get Johnny Johnston's ILY2 back, so that between emotion and response now there wasn't all that much shadow. All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are. After the Yeats classes my father returned — Niall Williams

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes. — Rolf-Dieter Heuer

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. — Irene Mayer Selznick

I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers. — Jim Otto

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior. — Ethan Zuckerman

Time does not cause change in matter, appearances to the contrary. I am going to skip a giant step, and say that man himself and all conscious beings produce matter subconsciously. — Jane Roberts

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

The Democratic Party headquarters house elf, — Dennis Kucinich