Elmer Eric Schattschneider Quotes
People who do not know what government is are not likely to know what democracy is either, for democracy is only what the soft inside of the oyster looks like.
Elmer Eric Schattschneider
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
Irwin Rose
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Saint Ignatius
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz
For my life, I need to make my own choices.
Kangana Ranaut
Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
A. J. P. Taylor
I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
Malik Bendjelloul
For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
H. P. Lovecraft
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Hannah Arendt
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
Samuel Gompers
I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
Gary Coleman
I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.
Gabriela Sabatini
Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us, ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls.
Billy Crystal
But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.
Alex Lifeson
Rush
I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.
Fred Savage
Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.
Pilou Asbaek
I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
Jimmy Piersall
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
Jewel Kilcher
I'm a good Catholic boy.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I’ve always said, if I get tired of it, I won’t do it. And I still enjoy it, and what’s there to get tired of? I always think that if people don’t recognize me, that’s when the problem starts. Right? That’s my way of looking at it. It’s great fun. I enjoy it. As I say, I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t enjoy it.
Peter Mayhew
A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I'm very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But it's not true.
Nadia Buari
People who do not know what government is are not likely to know what democracy is either, for democracy is only what the soft inside of the oyster looks like.
Elmer Eric Schattschneider
