Nicholas von Hoffman Quotes

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

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• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Progress
  • Discrimination

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Powerful

• Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • Done
  • Experience

• Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

  

  Nadezhda Krupskaya
  • Men
  • Women

• I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • World
  • Science
  • Writers

• Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

  

  Van Jones

• I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!

  

  Jack Roy
  • Money
  • She
  • Wife

• I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Driving
  • Cars
  • Fleet

• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Long
  • Power
  • Control

• We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

  

  Epictetus
  • Character
  • Effort
  • Impressions

• My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Dad
  • Golf
  • Teenager

• Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • Way
  • Grown-Up

• He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Cat
  • Kill
  • Walks

• Those who are made can be unmade.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Made

• All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Americans
  • Illegal aliens
  • Legal immigrants

• I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Politician
  • Americans
  • Heritage

• This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Journey

• Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Rest
  • Meditation
  • Uncertainty

• Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

  

  Nicholas von Hoffman
  • Americans
  • Challenged
  • Quarrel