Susan J. Fowler (Susan Joy Fowler) Quotes

You have to do what’s right for you – in myself I felt a deep moral obligation.

Susan J. Fowler

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• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Father
  • Girl

• I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Bad
  • Angry
  • Frustrated

• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Education
  • Support
  • Language

• I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Think
  • Me
  • Songs

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Know
  • Years
  • Transition

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • God

• There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI

• People can say what they want about a person, but if you're successful and you make them money, then people don't care.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People
  • Money

• I think sometimes when you have 24 episodes, you almost have to stretch things out too much.

  

  Jessica St. Clair

• Magnificent desolation.

  

  Buzz Aldrin

• This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Color
  • Ignore

• It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Men
  • War

• I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

  

  Peter Gallagher Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Time
  • Movie

• Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Growing

• Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Littles
  • Behinds
  • Cameras

• John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

  

  Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Moral

• If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Influence

• In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Moral
  • Leadership
  • Compass

• You have to do what’s right for you – in myself I felt a deep moral obligation.

  

  Susan J. Fowler
  • Moral
  • Right
  • Obligation