Emma Bonino Quotes

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

Emma Bonino

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• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Purpose

• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Party
  • Failure

• The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Good
  • Today
  • Pretty

• I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Law

• I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Food

• I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Myself

• It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Famous

• The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • American
  • Security

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Thought
  • Shoes

• I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Selling
  • Cabaret
  • Detriment

• In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • American
  • Hand

• It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

  

  Lemuel K. Washburn
  • Women
  • Wife
  • Husband

• My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Home
  • Divorce

• I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fear

• Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Home

• If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Life
  • Want
  • Gift

• I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

  

  Emma Bonino
  • Divorce