Katy Butler Quotes

Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

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• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Resolve
  • Our
  • Collective

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• I completely get the drag thing.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Thing
  • Get
  • Drag

• Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Together
  • Want
  • Giving

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • She
  • Business
  • Night

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • Consequences

• I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Crazy
  • Stupid

• The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Nice
  • Space
  • Chance

• In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Country

• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Live
  • True

• In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Forever

• If a segment of one's force is located where it is not sufficiently busy with the enemy, or if the troops are on the march - that is, idle - while the enemy is fighting, then these forces are being managed uneconomically. In this sense they are being wasted, which is even worse than using them inappropriately.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • March

• Quare religio pedibus subiecta vicissimopteritur, nos exaequat victoria caelo.

  

  Lucretius

• There is no such thing as muddle - obscurity, yes - but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Brain

• Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

  

  Atifete Jahjaga
  • Democracy
  • Enlightenment

• How I prayed just to get awayTo carry me anywhereSometimes the angels punish usBy answering our prayers - Carnies (2012)

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Today
  • House
  • Death

• Selbst in den äusserlichen Gebräuchen sollte sich die Lebensart der Künstler von der Lebensart der übrigen Menschen durchaus unterscheiden. Sie sind Braminen, eine höhere Kaste, aber nicht durch Geburt sondern durch freye Selbsteinweihung geadelt.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak.

  

  Bob Harper
  • Gay
  • Obstacles

• Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

  

  Katy Butler
  • Die
  • Machines