Elisabeth Marbury Quotes
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
-
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
-
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
-
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
-
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
-
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
-
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
-
What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
-
The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
-
At Mass General in January 2007, Dr. Loeffler's team attached a ring-shaped metal frame to my head with four pins. Then I went to the radiation center, where they strapped me to the treatment table and secured the head frame so that I couldn't move.
-
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
-
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
-
I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
-
To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
-
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
-
One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.
-
'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.
-
'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).
-
I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.
-
Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.
-
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
-
I take my kids to school. It's what keeps you normal.
-
Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.
-
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
