Jacqueline Winspear Quotes
A question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.
Quotes to Explore
-
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
-
The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
-
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
-
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
-
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
-
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
-
Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
-
'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.
-
To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
-
The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.
-
Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
-
I try to not focus on what people expect from me.
-
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.
-
The true dualism I take to be the contrast between two wills, one of which is felt as vital impulse (élan vital) and the other as vital control (frein vital).
-
One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.
-
It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.
-
He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.
-
For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay - Except the dream that's almost dead today.
-
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
-
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.
-
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
-
I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched by the corporate gloss, the veneer of sameness that seems to be spreading across the country.
-
A question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.
