Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
Quotes to Explore
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.
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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
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The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.
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What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.
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Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
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France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the
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I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.
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If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
