Elizabeth Wein Quotes

Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.

Elizabeth Wein

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• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

  

  Van Jones
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Kids

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Man

• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Down
  • Direction
  • Plan

• The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Beauty

• There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • Romantic
  • Belong

• Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• We the Chinese nation have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Family
  • Lost
  • Enemy

• A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the modern sciences. All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Alone
  • Philosophical

• The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Character

• Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Reality

• I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

  

  Alan Ball
  • School
  • High

• I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Up

• I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in the battle. And we simply weren't able to do it with our budget and do it any justice, so we had to lose it.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Justice
  • Grief

• If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that has 100 million streams, on certain services you only get paid on 75% of those streams. How's an artist going to live like that?

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Live

• I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

  

  Heraclitus
  • World
  • Order
  • Sweeping

• You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Food
  • Party
  • Be Logical

• I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Relationship
  • Conflicted

• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Small

• Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Life
  • World
  • Dream

• Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Soul
  • Bright