Nathan Englander Quotes

There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.

Nathan Englander

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• Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • People
  • Food
  • Wall

• I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Arts

• I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Arts
  • Useless
  • Committees

• What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • More
  • Promises

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Health

• I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Believe
  • Safety
  • Bus

• The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Air

• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Law
  • Single

• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • College
  • Arts
  • Golden

• I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Tights

• There is always safety in valor.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Always
  • Safety
  • Valor

• The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Safety

• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Safety

• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Never
  • Promise
  • Promises

• I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Job
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts

• Fuel cells create a better automobile that's 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustainable from energy and safety perspectives.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Energy
  • Better
  • Safety

• I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is the worst part of the holiday. But then again, if the plane crashes, you're still dead. For that much money I'd want a little capsule that whizzed me off to safety if it was going to crash.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Money
  • Done
  • Nice

• But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?" "They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Believe
  • Destroyed
  • Promises

• A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • May
  • Confidence

• I never dread going back to Congress.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Back
  • Going
  • Congress

• There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.

  

  Nathan Englander
  • Safety
  • Arts
  • Promises