Elizabeth Wein Quotes

More than anything else, I think, Maddie went to war on behalf of the Holy Island seals.

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• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Idea
  • Intelligent
  • Acceptance

• We want all the information because we do intend to get to the bottom of why some of these insurance policies have lapsed.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Why
  • Information
  • Insurance

• You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Confidence
  • Republican
  • Degrees

• Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Political
  • Past
  • Knowledge

• We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

  

  Mary Calderone
  • Society
  • Reason
  • Wrong

• Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Childhood
  • Genius
  • Means

• Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Should
  • Born
  • Boat

• Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!

  

  Pythagoras
  • Love
  • Obstacles
  • Shines

• He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

  

  Plato
  • Money
  • Impression
  • Lover

• God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by wicked actions rather than by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • God
  • Nature
  • Human fortunes

• Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Happens
  • State
  • Matters

• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Child
  • Blessed

• I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Religious
  • Eye
  • Tears

• I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

  

  Bono U2
  • Song
  • I Think
  • Accessible

• More than anything else, I think, Maddie went to war on behalf of the Holy Island seals.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • I Think
  • Holy
  • Seals