Eric Liu Quotes

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.

  

  Edith Widder
  • May
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Money
  • Day
  • Mom

• I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I know all the books of the Bible.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Know
  • Bible
  • Books

• There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Something
  • Irish
  • Remarkable

• Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it’s probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Perspective

• What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth

• All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

  

  Howard Jacobson
  • Why
  • Words

• I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • She
  • Happy

• When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

  

  Don McLean
  • Road
  • Celebrity

• A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

  

  James Buchan
  • Today
  • Water

• A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Science

• The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Heaven
  • Dying

• One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

  

  Danny Glover
  • World
  • Country
  • Violence

• If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

  

  Alcee Hastings
  • American
  • War
  • Today

• Kissing onscreen is the worst thing in the world. I'm OK with lovemaking scenes, but I hate kissing.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • World
  • Hate

• My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Parents
  • Funny
  • Mom

• The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Parent
  • Firsts
  • Incredibles

• A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Man
  • Ride
  • Bent

• I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Nails

• Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

  

  Eric Liu