Samuel Witwer (Samuel Stewart Witwer) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		When something goes wrong in our lives we often ask ourselves "Who was present?" and if there was ever a singular person that was present in whatever the event was when something changed our lives. If we can't get beyond that event, we become obsessed with it or it changed our life in a way that we can't make sense of. We often seek out that person because that was the last time our lives made sense.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Witwer 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patricia Ireland 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Chan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mandy Patinkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Valerie June 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hanya Yanagihara 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				S. Jay Olshansky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Venus Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mads Mikkelsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After the shows, I sit in an ice tub and do a hot dip, cold dip, and sometimes I sit in a hyperbaric chamber to rejuvenate my energy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Usher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ike Skelton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Raleigh