Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

Muriel Rukeyser

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• When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Music
  • Important
  • News

• On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Kings
  • Sons
  • Companions

• It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Future

• I can never find the right bras.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Never
  • Find
  • I Can

• I basically raised myself.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Raised
  • Basically

• It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Strong
  • Empathy

• Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Cool

• Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Political
  • Events

• Working on 'Drive', a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on 'Firefly' of course. He called me up and said, 'I've got a part for you that you will love,' and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Love

• I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Option

• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Soul

• Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Connection

• I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

  

  Cherie Lunghi

• I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Health

• A train was nearly due, and intending passengers were sitting in front of the hotels drinking beer while they waited, and various conveyances had stopped there on their way to Göhren or Sellin, and the Lonely One seemed a very noisy, busy one to me as we rattled by over the stones, and I was glad to turn off to the left at a sign-post pointing towards Göhren and get on to the deep, sandy, silent forest roads.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Train
  • Glad
  • Roads

• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

  

  Martin Luther
  • Wind
  • Sins
  • Different Mind

• Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

  

  Jonathan Haidt
  • Together
  • Moral

• If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

  

  Muriel Rukeyser
  • Together
  • Enough
  • Social