Iris Chang Quotes

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

Iris Chang

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
  • United States
  • Meet

• There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Serious
  • Most
  • Iran

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Moments
  • Lot
  • Mindless

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Art lies by its own artifice.

  

  Ovid
  • Art
  • Lies
  • Own

• But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Best
  • See
  • Year

• Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • More

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Love
  • Rich

• I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on THE FLINTSTONES!

  

  Bill Maher
  • World
  • Age

• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

  

  Kate Morton
  • History
  • Faithless
  • Teller

• Next to life we express gratitude for the gift of free agency. When thou didst create man, thou placed within him part of thine omnipotence and bade him choose for himself. Liberty and conscience thus became a sacred part of human nature. Freedom not only to think, but to speak and act is a God-given privilege.

  

  David O. McKay
  • Life
  • God
  • Nature

• Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power
  • Moon

• It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

  

  Iris Chang
  • History
  • Difficult
  • Very