Breyten Breytenbach Quotes

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

Breyten Breytenbach

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
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• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Age
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Choice

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Washington
  • Civility
  • Levelheaded

• The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Day
  • Football
  • Paris

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Expect

• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movie
  • Look
  • Shoes

• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

  

  Bruce Catton
  • Time
  • Age
  • Night

• Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Communication

• People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • People
  • America

• Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Law

• Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach
  • America
  • Present
  • Enemy