Rebecca Solnit Quotes

I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

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• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Why
  • Change
  • Three

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • Free
  • Economy
  • Manufacturing

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Political

• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Past
  • Present

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Short

• Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in

  

  Wallace Stevens

• But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Great
  • Men
  • Mistake

• How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Book

• The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Soul

• I began to get calls from constituents, 'Do you think you can ever get on transportation?' So when there was a vacancy created, I worked very hard to get there.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann

• In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Career
  • Travel
  • Journey

• With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Science

• After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Political
  • Better
  • Media

• My grandpa sells condoms to sailors, He punctures the tips with a pin, My grandma does back-street abortions, My god how the money rolls in.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • God
  • Money
  • Grandma

• When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Past
  • Growth
  • Revolution

• I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.

  

  Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Thinking
  • Revolution
  • Vulnerable