Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes

Nothing was what she was; nothing was what she gave to those foolish enough to care for her. Nothing was what she deserved, and so nothing had been what she got. It didn’t matter how hard she tried or what she did.

Courtney Milan

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• I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Work
  • Victories

• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Power

• When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Journey

• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Give

• Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Kids
  • Me

• Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Things
  • Force

• Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Greatest

• The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Names
  • Places

• As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Rhythm
  • Instrument
  • Moves

• I could stand to lose some weight.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Lose
  • Stand
  • Weight

• Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Technology

• Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Age
  • Baby
  • Model

• He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Reality
  • Earth
  • Fear

• What is the moral argument for an affirmative action that justifies unending race discrimination against a declining white working class, who have become the expendables of our multicultural regime?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Action
  • Moral

• The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age

• Nothing in life is promised except death.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Death
  • Nothing

• I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

  

  Randy West
  • World
  • American
  • Watches

• Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • Great

• Nothing was what she was; nothing was what she gave to those foolish enough to care for her. Nothing was what she deserved, and so nothing had been what she got. It didn’t matter how hard she tried or what she did.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • She
  • Nothing
  • Deserved