Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes

When one half of the nation demonizes the other half, tendrils of resentment reach out and strangle whatever charitable impulses remain in us.

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• I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Process
  • Information

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Earth

• The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Power
  • American

• Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Cake
  • Bourbon
  • Proust

• I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • God
  • Knows
  • God Knows

• The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance are considering a project, they ask themselves, "Does this lend itself to a simplistic marketing approach which will guarantee a big opening weekend?" As a movie-goer, I think that's tragic, because when you look back at those movies that made us fall in love with movies in the first place, most of them were not high-concept, and most of them would not have "won their weekend."

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • High

• [On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Long
  • Country
  • Hungry

• Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Religion
  • Nationality

• Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Air
  • Magic
  • Mountains

• Some cities are really boring and straight.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Cities
  • Boring
  • Straight

• My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Years

• Give me Your eyes for just one second, Give me Your eyes so I can see, Everything that I keep missing, Give me Your love for humanity, Give me Your arms for the broken-hearted, The ones that are far beyond my reach, Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten, Give me Your eyes so I can see.

  

  Brandon Heath Knell
  • Eyes
  • Humanity
  • Missing

• Any time you can rally, that's something you can build on and you reach back. If you've got a game like that and you're down, and say, 'Hey, remember what we did at Kansas State.

  

  Eddie Sutton
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Build

• When one half of the nation demonizes the other half, tendrils of resentment reach out and strangle whatever charitable impulses remain in us.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Reach
  • Impulses
  • Demonizes