Edith Grossman Quotes
I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out.
Edith Grossman
Quotes to Explore
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
Harriet Martineau
There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.
Fat Joe
A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara De Angelis
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
W. E. B. Du Bois
We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look forward to Judge Gorsuch being on the court, Justice Gorsuch being on the court, and bringing some clarification to those issues.
Pam Bondi
I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
Vince Cable
Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.
Nadine Gordimer
Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.
Mayim Bialik
Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.
Penelope Cruz
We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.
Jessica Chastain
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.
Edwin A. Abbott
I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out.
Edith Grossman
