Anne Roiphe Quotes

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

Anne Roiphe

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • World
  • Taken
  • Humanity

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Live
  • Humanity
  • Tree

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • True
  • Humanity
  • Rich

• Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Horses
  • Stream
  • Crossing

• Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Me
  • Humanity
  • Ugly

• 'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Love
  • Change
  • Humanity

• A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Stop
  • Humanity
  • Impossible

• It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • True
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Country
  • Humanity

• We seem to be able to be fully comfortable only when the remainder of humanity can be labeled as members versus nonmembers.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Today

• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Humanity
  • Attitude
  • Missing

• It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

  

  Madame Roland
  • People
  • Truth
  • Respect

• In Woodstock Nation there are no writers*mdash;only poet-warriors.

  

  Abbie Hoffman

• She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • She
  • Horse

• Essentially, I'm a 21-year-old who's a millionaire through gaming, vlogging, and my online experience. Yo, I'll take it!

  

  KSI
  • Experience

• But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

  

  Brent Scowcroft

• You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Humanity