Emily Yoffe Quotes

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

Emily Yoffe

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Awareness
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • World
  • Help
  • United States

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Decision

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Science
  • Human

• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • World
  • Men
  • Business

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Wish
  • Day

• We are living in a world which seems to be founded on the refusal to reflect.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • World

• Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy - which, by the way, we are. But we are, in fact, a rather small and intimate company.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • World
  • Small
  • Galaxy

• Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • World
  • Shopping

• From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

  

  Adrian Edmondson
  • People
  • Good

• Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!

  

  Buddy Ebsen
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Obstacles

• Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but in most cases what I actually need to do is make myself keep writing until it flows again.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Writing
  • Tea
  • Chocolate

• I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Guy
  • English
  • Mood

• The whole country doesn't like politicians, and young people like them even less.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Country
  • Like
  • Politicians

• The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • World
  • Terrible
  • Victim