Benedict Anderson Quotes

This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.

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• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Life
  • Law
  • Health

• I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Know

• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Life
  • Help
  • You

• We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Hope
  • Father

• Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Writing
  • Single
  • Rest

• Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Black
  • Crazy
  • Teacher

• Loved people are loving people.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Loved
  • Loving

• President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Great
  • Today
  • Chicago

• Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Men
  • Charity
  • Brotherhood

• And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Dog
  • Fool

• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Artist

• Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Relief

• The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.

  

  Billy Davies
  • Trust
  • Ability
  • Deliver

• The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

  

  Christmas Humphreys
  • Death
  • Fear
  • End

• I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Kill
  • Therapy

• This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Kill
  • Fraternity
  • Imaginings