Quotes by Authors - Page 226

Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.
Heather Marsh
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.
Adam Hochschild
How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they are responsible for the society they live in, which is a product of that past. Assuming this responsibility provides a means of survival and liberation. Everyone and everything in the world is affected, for the most part negatively, by US dominance and intervention, often violently through direct military means or through proxies.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.
Patricia Cornwell
Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.
Eileen Anglin
Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws.
Christina Engela
No voting on who gets to be people.
N K Jemisin
Human rights protection laws typically come under attack from those who made these laws necessary to begin with.
Christina Engela
Stay awake. Spread awareness. Take action.
Eileen Anglin
Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.
DaShanne Stokes
With "gay marriage," the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have begun.
Orson Scott Card
Human Rights directs my path"~ ~ Minnie Estelle Miller 2011
Minnie Estelle Miller
At a lunchtime reception for the diplomatic corps in Washington, given the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, I was approached by a good-looking man who extended his hand. 'We once met many years ago,' he said. 'And you knew and befriended my father.' My mind emptied, as so often happens on such occasions. I had to inform him that he had the advantage of me. 'My name is Hector Timerman. I am the ambassador of Argen
Christopher Hitchens
Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted.
Alexander McCall Smith
Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university
Khalil Osiris
One cannot fail to notice the inconsistency of those rejecting human rights: their rejection takes place in the public square created by human rights. It is difficult to reject human rights without using them.
Filip Spagnoli
You can't have occupation and human rights.
Christopher Hitchens
To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.
Tom Regan
You can't be born again, but you can change.
Natsuki Takaya
Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.
Orrin Woodward
In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode off into our future.
A.B. Shepherd
For a minute there, I thought I stood a chance. But I guess in the end, Mitchell will still be the lucky one.
Piper Shelly
no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu.
Thomm Quackenbush
Hope is confidence.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms.
Lailah Gifty Akita
We must look hopeful.
Jerome Lawrence
And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.
Caroline Kepnes
Even in times of famine, we have more than enough to eat.
Lailah Gifty Akita
To hope is a long run but hopelessness is wrongdoing to your soul.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Hopelessness is only a puzzle, and your task is to find hope
Chinonye J. Chidolue
When you decide to face your life squarely, you stop moving round in circles.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Hopelessness is endless, the more you search for it, the more you find it
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Hopelessness makes you a futile wanderer. Hope makes your life a wonder
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Hope is the breath that keep your dreams alive. Don’t stop breathing!.
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Feeling hopeless? But are you even there yet?
Chinonye J. Chidolue
You can choose to stay strong and keep moving on or you can run, and in the end still make a U-turn..
Chinonye J. Chidolue
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right." (pg. 481)
Jodi Picoult
Our greatest hope does not rest in the death of suffering. Neither does our help lie in us having a full and perfect life, with no pain, no brokenness, and no Lyme disease. Instead our hope lies in God and we hope in the fact that this is our temporary home and our forever home with Him in Heaven is perfect. This hope- this beautiful and living hope (I Peter 1:3-4) is for the future but also gives us hope for our present days.
Rebecca VanDeMark
I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress
Jojo Moyes
Life could begin all over again if you were lucky enough, and I had decided to be lucky.
Louisa Reid
Hope keeps dreams alive through the prayers of those who never give up. They are able to pursue their dreams with confidence and reach their goals.“For every one that asks receives, and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.” Matthew 7:8 words of Jesus Christ
Ellen Jean Barrier
No, I won't be hopeless. I am full of hope. I'm a HopeFUL. ~ Evie Snow
Carrie Hope Fletcher
You were my single greatest adventure.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.- Camille Preaker
Gillian Flynn
That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.
Amanda Tero
Don't retire, rewire and refire
Bernard Kelvin Clive
She wasn't happy, exactly; she was still too raw for that. But she was satisfied. Satisfied and relieved, too, with maybe just a bit of joy thrown in for good measure. Yes, that was it. She'd made it through so much already. She knew now that she was strong. She'd survive. And she had friends and family to support her.
Susan Elia MacNeal
When will the others come?"And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them--but they will be there!
L.M. Montgomery
I will do all things to please the Lord,for he is my inner strength. He gives and I recieve,though I should give my all like he did for me
Marcelo López
There is always a way out, as there is a way in
Bernard Kelvin Clive
I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.
Neal Shusterman
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.
Cormac McCarthy
For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it may stand for garden in your tongue. In this box there is earth from my orchard, and such blessing as Galadriel has still to bestow is upon it. It will not keep you on your road, nor defend you against any peril; but if you keep it and see your home again at last, then perhaps it may reward you. Though you should find all barren and laid waste, there will be few gardens in Middle-earth that will bloom like your garden, if you sprinkle this earth there. Then you may remember Galadriel, and catch a glimpse far off of Lórien, that you have seen only in our winter. For our spring and our summer are gone by, and they will never be seen on earth again save in memory.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Wake up each day and make the best of it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?
Ann Voskamp
There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.
Albert Camus
I salute your level of patience if you watch these daily soaps. I cannot kill because there's not enough space for graveyards.
Himmilicious
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.
Leo Tolstoy
It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper.
Katie Roiphe