Wassenaarse Quotes & Sayings

I do not think, I note — Pierre Reverdy

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities. — Price Pritchett

States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation ... The time is long past - if indeed it ever existed - when we should permit the noble concept of States' rights to be betrayed and corrupted into a slogan to hide the bald denial of American rights, of civil rights, and of human rights. — Robert F. Kennedy

Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice. — Paul Brown

In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation. — Sharon Salzberg

Everyone has a dark side. This is pure fact. I can see it like a shadow behind them all the time. — Suzanne Palmieri

Bobby sips his coffee. If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead. — Ned Vizzini

I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why. — Daniel Marques

So you chose not to be part of the bands of children who group together for the sole purpose of excluding others, and people look at you and say, poor girl, she's so isolated, but you know a secret, you know who you really are. You are the one human being who is capable of understanding the alien mind, because you are the alien mind; you know what it is to be unhuman because there's never been any human group that gave you credentials as a bona fide homo sapien
# [He] wondered if it was already too late to teach her how to be a human — Orson Scott Card

Elections are a kind of business. I have to present myself: 'I can do this and that for this area so please give me your vote'. People vote for the politicians who can best understand and contribute to their region or country. In a business you can choose your clients, and the message is targeted to them only. But politics is universal; no matter what age the audience, you have to send the same message to everyone. — Takafumi Horie

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve. — Joel Edgerton

There will always be times when we get beaten, said Bill Shankly. There will always be times when we lose. But the important thing is what we take away from that beating, what we learn when we lose. Because we'll always learn more from a loss than a win. So remember that and learn that, lads. — David Peace

I was really happy with it, if I'm honest. I've been kicked out of a few parties, but it's fun when you get kicked out. Being told to leave is great. 'Get out you're too pissed', 'Wicked'. — Lee Ryan

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. — Frank Gaffney

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies. — Caroline Myss