Ralph Peters Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt -
I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
Edgar Meyer -
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius -
Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
Rachel Bilson -
The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
Tariq Ramadan
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
Van Morrison -
Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
Walter Cronkite -
You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
Vanessa Williams -
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
Orson F. Whitney -
Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
Zac Brown Band -
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
Gary Johnson -
In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
Wellington Mara -
They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius -
I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
Washed Out -
What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
Randy Moss -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Ice T -
We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
Banana Yoshimoto -
When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.
Jonathan Davis -
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.
Sebastian Junger -
We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.
Ralph Peters