Susan Polis Schutz Quotes

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

Susan Polis Schutz

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• In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • American
  • America
  • Soul

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• If I don't create, I don't exist.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Create
  • Exist

• We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Giving
  • Environment
  • Step

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Life
  • Spiritual

• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Literature

• All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Rest
  • Write
  • Genius

• My fridge is usually pretty empty. If I can get it together to order FreshDirect, I will have some fruit and yogurt in the fridge. But there isn't a ton of stuff you would cook with.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Together
  • Pretty
  • Fruit

• There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • God
  • Child
  • Find

• I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Job
  • Famous

• Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. The bread Will be our bread, the stone will be Our bed and we shall sleep by night. We shall forget by day, except The moments when we choose to play The imagined pine, the imagined jay.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Night
  • Moments

• For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart, And makes his pulses fly,To catch the thrill of a happy voice And the light of a pleasant eye.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Light

• For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Music
  • Long
  • Desire

• I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

  

  David Robinson The Cars

• Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

  

  James D. Watson
  • People
  • Great
  • Support

• I still love R&B - I kind of literally listen to everything.

  

  Chris Lane

• I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rest

• If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Life
  • Rest

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • World
  • Picture
  • Meaning

• This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

  

  Susan Polis Schutz
  • Life
  • Want
  • Choose