Edith Stein Quotes

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Edith Stein

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Culture
  • Alone
  • Thought

• British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Society
  • Never
  • Imperialism

• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Always
  • See
  • London

• I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Love
  • Acting

• Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

  

  Pancho Villa
  • Like
  • End
  • Said

• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Place
  • Caring
  • Surroundings

• I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Beauty
  • Lady
  • Admit

• It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Learn

• It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • You
  • Rude

• When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Writing
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I think there is an army clock ticking in me. I value time. I always want to be on time. I don't complain about things, saying, 'There is no caravan here,' etc. For example, they could only arrange a tent on the location of 'Pareshanu Raa'. I understand the importance of money. I respect my work a lot. Not that I am the only one who works hard.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Man
  • Enjoy
  • Disdain

• I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Want
  • Hollywood
  • Fulfilled

• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Dad

• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Progress
  • Place
  • Now

• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • World
  • Free
  • Player

• We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Focus

• A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Best

• It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • Important
  • Voice
  • Nostalgic

• The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Needs
  • Need
  • Nation