Zoja Kosmodemjanskaja Quotes & Sayings

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened. — Chris Hardwick

We're going to protect Christianity. We don't have to be politically correct about it. — Donald Trump

When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues. — Tommy Lasorda

On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood. — Brandi L. Bates

It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don't think of ourselves as citizens in the old sense of being small parts of something larger and infinitely more important to which we have serious responsibilities. We do still think of ourselves as citizens in the sense of being beneficiaries
we're actually conscious of our rights as American citizens and the nation's responsibilities to us and ensuring we get our share of the American pie. We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makers of the pie. So who makes the pie?
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Something has happened where we've decided on a personal level that it's all right to abdicate our individual responsibility to the common good and let government worry about the common good while we all go about our individual self-interested business and struggle to gratify our various appetites. — David Foster Wallace

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul. — Rudyard Kipling

I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it's even harder to recognize the truth when it's buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like. — Shannon Mullen

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! — Charles Dickens

When I take you in my arms, I wonder how on earth I ever survived without know what that felt like before I met you. — Jennifer Shirk

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family. — Ethel Waters

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst. — Bernard Beckett

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names! — Otto Von Bismarck

And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds. — William Carlos Williams

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,
Surely such clay is more than half divine
'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,
The very stars are made of clay like mine. — Omar Khayyam