Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Memory is a spiderweb. It hangs in a corner and collects dust. Until you need it to catch a fly.

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• 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

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • World
  • Good
  • Job

• If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • World
  • Good
  • God

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

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Death
  • Political
  • Content

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Values
  • Honesty
  • Lifestyle

• 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

• Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • More
  • United States
  • Mexican

• Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Cancer
  • Something
  • Almost

• We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Government

• Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Nature
  • Search
  • Opinions

• I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Kind
  • Musician

• We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Remember
  • Community
  • Better

• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Always
  • Fiction

• Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Difference
  • Knowing
  • Wit

• The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Perfect
  • Expression
  • Award

• It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Progress
  • Spirit
  • Sense

• The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Body
  • Ignorant

• Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Heaven
  • Glory
  • Weakness

• Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Believe
  • Productive
  • Nomadic

• Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Arguing

• Memory is a spiderweb. It hangs in a corner and collects dust. Until you need it to catch a fly.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Need
  • Memory
  • Hangs