Willa Cather Quotes
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
Willa Cather
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In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
Warren Farrell
Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.
Octavia E. Butler
Like when Jay Leno made jokes about Koreans eating dog, but the hidden messages, our invisibility, is more harmful to us than any of those fools on 'board'.
Margaret Cho
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
Aldo Leopold
I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.
Jennifer Nettles
Sugarland
In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
Dawn Steel
I am fully anticipating that something - perhaps many things - will not go according to plan on our actual wedding day. If some of the flowers are wilted, or there aren't enough vegetarian meals, or the priest calls me the wrong name, I will embrace these errors.
Ellie Kemper
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
John O. Brennan
Atomic war is bad but you know what’s even worse? Having had enough atomic wars that you can rank them in terms of horribleness.
James Nicoll
You can do as much as you think you can,But you'll never accomplish more;If you're afraid of yourself, young man,There's little for you in store.For failure comes from the inside first,It's there if we only knew it,And you can win, though you face the worst,If you feel that you're going to do it.
Edgar Guest
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
Willa Cather