Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

I didn't want to write travelogues.

Deborah Eisenberg

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• New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Moments
  • New York

• If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Car
  • Dog

• If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Day
  • Never
  • Thought

• 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • True
  • Dream
  • Earth

• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Agree
  • Compromise
  • Necessity

• I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

  

  Han Fei
  • Believe
  • Impossible
  • Sure

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • School
  • Sales

• My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Real
  • Family
  • Mother

• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Life
  • True
  • Damn

• Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I am attracted to the dark side of life!

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Side

• God has definitely been good to me.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Good
  • God
  • Me

• Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinion

• Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

  

  Luis Fortuno
  • Country
  • Fighting

• After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

  

  William Henry Ashley
  • Men
  • Horse
  • Loss

• I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Basketball
  • Soccer
  • Rugby

• I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

  

  Elliot Perlman
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I didn't want to write travelogues.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg