Susan Powter Quotes
If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
Quotes to Explore
-
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
-
I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
-
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
-
The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
-
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
-
What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
-
In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
-
High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
-
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
-
I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.
-
It's great to be here at the VMA's! I know this show's been a little sketchy in the past. But there isn't gonna be any problems tonight...is there Eminem?! Not here, someone should've told me.
-
For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay - Except the dream that's almost dead today.
-
If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate.
-
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
-
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
-
Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
-
If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.
-
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.
-
exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.
-
In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
-
You look at Kawhi Leonard, Tony Allen, Draymond Green: they are great on ball, and they are great team defenders as well. You want to be both of them, not just one.
-
I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone else has complete dominance. It's sadistic, even though I find Richard to be a really lovely human being. That's what the whole film "Tickled" is about. It's not a film about tickling, but I think tickling offers a really good visual metaphor for the much bigger ideas that we were trying to get at about power and control - by people who have a lot of money - over people without money and who have no power in the relationship.
-
If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
