Irena Sendler Quotes

After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.

Irena Sendler

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• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Peace
  • Point
  • Election

• Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Banking

• I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Problems
  • Feminist

• We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Take
  • Mother`s
  • Wave

• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Like
  • Facts

• I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Star
  • Brand

• If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Think

• 'I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me,' I said. 'I want to be myself.''Don’t be a child.'I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. 'What?''You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I’m tired of your whining.'

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Up
  • Done
  • Universe

• Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Night

• We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.

  

  Warren Farrell

• (imitating Norman Bates) Mother, are you there? I love you! I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel!

  

  Eminem
  • Mother

• The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • America

• I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

  

  Margaret Mead

• All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

  

  Donna Leon
  • School

• It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

  

  James Gleick
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Attention

• I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

  

  James Sanborn

• One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Many of humanity's most intractable challenges will only be solved through market-driven innovation.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Humanity
  • Innovation

• I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Job

• I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Humanity
  • Understood
  • World War II