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Quotes by Writer
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
7
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
7
"She would give them order. She would create constellations."
7
"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
7
"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
Man,
7
"The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe."
7
"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."
7
"Equip yourself for your own needs."
7
"A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance."
7
"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
7
"I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference."
7
"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest."
7
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
7
"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."
7
"Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."
7
"I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words."
7
"I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people."
7
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
7
"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news."
7
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again."
7
"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"
7
"You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher."
7
"To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of."
7
"The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it."
7
"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."
Eye,
7
"The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued."
7
"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
7
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be doled out by benevolent well-wishers, but as Casement said at his trial, as those rights to which all human beings are entitled from birth. It is this spirit which underlies organizations like Amnesty International, with its belief that putting someone in prison solely for his or her opinion is a crime, whether it happens in China or Turkey or Argentina and Medecins Sans Frontieres, with its belief that a sick child is entitled to medical care, whether in Rwanda or Honduras or the South Bronx."
7
"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."
7
"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know."
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