Jessamyn West Quotes

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

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• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Small

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Red

• If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I love reading books that can break my heart.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Books

• If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Man
  • Rest
  • Name

• I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Superhero

• There's depth in my comedy.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Comedy
  • Depth

• I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Live
  • Age
  • Driving

• When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Power
  • Religious

• Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Doing
  • Everything
  • Knowing

• It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Help
  • Self
  • Step

• This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. ...You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Taken

• Against this current conception of religion the prophets insisted on a right life as the true worship of God. Morality to them was not merely a prerequisite of effective ceremonial worship. They brushed sacrificial ritual aside altogether as trifling compared with righteousness, nay, as a harmful substitute and a hindrance for ethical religion.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

  

  Walt Kelly

• I've learned that, as an actor, I have a responsibility to my audience.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Responsibility

• Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

  

  Brad Garrett
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Doubt

• I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?

  

  John Waters
  • Up
  • Parents
  • City

• I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Heart
  • Mountains
  • Minute

• Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

  

  Richard O'Brien
  • Saying
  • Involved
  • Goodbye

• Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

  

  Jessamyn West