Eva Hoffman Quotes

A power struggle is always better than absolute power.

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• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Truth
  • Technology
  • Better

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Important
  • Help
  • Government

• Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Long
  • City
  • Romantic

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Control
  • Never

• It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Past
  • Girlfriend

• 'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She

• The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Spiritual

• 'I have come to kill you.'The death’s heads shrugged. 'You have come to try.'

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Death

• Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Time
  • Revolution

• The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Water

• Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Road
  • Travel
  • Door

• I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People

• 'Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Time

• I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.

  

  Mark Kelly
  • Believe

• The people who know Ted Cruz best despise him, including his former college roommate.

  

  David Brock
  • People
  • College

• So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Done
  • Help
  • Respect

• I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • Believed
  • Forces
  • Journalists

• Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • True
  • Goal
  • Intimacy

• Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

  

  D.T. Max
  • Community
  • Agreement
  • Saws

• A power struggle is always better than absolute power.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Power
  • Struggle