Walensky Wiki Quotes & Sayings

The radicals ... want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women ... The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble. — Russell Jacoby

We're a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we'll never be stopped. — George Lucas

Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie. — Dave Kopel

Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system. — Daniel Keidl

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters. — Seth Godin

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation. — John Prescott

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative. — Jacque Fresco

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it. — Jerry Adler

Come on in. The water's fine. — Jason Medina

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar. — Halliwell Hobbes

I've always surrounded myself with talented people, both in film and in business. — Ronald Meyer

I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Many simple peoples feared the exceptional individual as a disintegrating force; there is a Chinese proverb that "the great man is a public misfortune. — Will Durant

The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it. — Arthur C. Clarke

If you are not in the habit of being active, you are at risk for a number of ailments that would probably not be an issue if you just moved. Moving your body on a daily basis, continually throughout the day, is your body's instinct because it is essential to its well-being. — Cameron Diaz