Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
Quotes to Explore
-
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
-
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
-
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
-
I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
-
I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
-
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
-
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
-
Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
-
Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
-
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
-
I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
-
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
-
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
-
I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
-
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
-
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
-
Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
-
Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
-
Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
-
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
-
In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in her own writing, she's very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they're accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli.
-
Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.
-
You are not one person. You are a different person in each moment in time. Your name means nothing. Go see a person with the same name in a different time, and it’s someone else entirely.
-
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
