William Lovett Quotes & Sayings

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk. — Chuck Schumer

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips ... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story. — Spalding Gray

If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried. — David Brent

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice. — C.S. Lewis

It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid. — Viswanathan Anand

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. — David R. Brower

This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age. — Steven Johnson