Lisa Graff Quotes

I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.

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• People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Important
  • King
  • Inspired

• I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Work
  • Live
  • Facts

• The actresses I've known support each other very much. If you have a level of confidence in what you're doing, then you don't feel threatened. We all have different things to offer.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Support
  • Confidence

• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Road
  • Hell
  • Milestones

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Success
  • Years
  • Building

• It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Long
  • Sword

• I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Value
  • Excitement

• My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Party
  • Questions
  • Ask

• The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Risk
  • Guilt
  • Innocence

• So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Need
  • Week
  • Run

• I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • History
  • December

• The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Life
  • God
  • Religious

• My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.

  

  Catherine of Aragon
  • Enough
  • Surprise
  • Intention

• Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

  

  Adrienne Monnier
  • Stands
  • Unkindness
  • Displeasure

• History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • History
  • Society
  • Light

• Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

  

  Alante Kavaite
  • Focus
  • Gender
  • Issue

• We are expecting the most ambitious renewal of parliamentary deputies in the history of independent Ukraine.

  

  Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Okean Elzy
  • Expecting
  • Renewal
  • Deputies

• I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.

  

  Lisa Graff