Elizabeth Wein Quotes

Punishment and revenge are two different things.

Elizabeth Wein

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• I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Important
  • Know
  • Doing

• Never wound a snake; kill it.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Never
  • Snake
  • Wound

• A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Earth

• You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • History
  • Understanding

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • May
  • Friends
  • Happy

• If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

  

  Dogen
  • Truth

• Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.

  

  Marc Ostrofsky
  • Present

• 'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

  

  Jerry Weintraub
  • Great

• If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • School

• I have known in my heart since I was a little girl that music was a major part of my life and always would be, but seeing others respond to the words I sing amazes me.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.

  

  Frank Tipler

• You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Life
  • Control
  • Confidence

• For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Years

• They've been excellent appointments. These people are in the tradition of strong, well-qualified, non-ideological economists.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • People
  • Strong
  • Economists

• We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • House
  • Body
  • Public Opinion

• NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Nothing

• Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • Age
  • Suicide

• Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nations
  • Punishment
  • Individuals

• An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Revenge

• I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Violence
  • Choice

• I don't know about them, but I sure am. I'm out for revenge.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Revenge
  • I Don't Know

• Punishment and revenge are two different things.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Revenge
  • Punishment
  • Different Things