Years Before Coronavirus Quotes & Sayings

Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes. — Alan Barth

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage ... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation. — Ehud Barak

The justice I have received, I shall give back. — Patricia Highsmith

He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home. — Colin Bateman

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy. — Bobby Jindal

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family. — Nelson Mandela

...Fei Xiaoton, the University of Chicago - trained Chinese sociologist, once observed, this nation is "a land without ghosts," a place where people are so busy with promises of progress that they have forgotten where they come from and who their ancestors were... — John Kuo Wei Tchen

When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work. — Malcolm Gladwell

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really. — Chris Noth

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. — John Updike

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning. — Guy Maddin

I can't sit in the same place. I gotta keep going. — El-P