Al Battani Quotes

#1. I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Aaron Siskind

#2. ... hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

G. Willow Wilson

#4. Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by ... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Thelonious Monk

#5. I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money ... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.

Linda McMahon

#6. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.

Robert Waterman McChesney

#7. Yet I also recognize this: Even if everyone in the world were to accept me and my illness and validate my pain, unless I can abide myself and be compassionate toward my own distress, I will probably always feel alone and neglected by others.

Kiera Van Gelder

#8. None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

Lauren Conrad

#9. There are some friends you don't risk for your own peace of mind. Some things ... at the time it wasn't worth the risk of losing him.

Abigail Roux

#10. In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

Shimon Peres

#11. Man is neither an angel nor a demon. Man is what his lover loves.

Lara Biyuts

#12. This could be the last time I have to wait. But I don't know what I'm waiting for. What are you waiting for? they used to say. That meant Hurry up. No answer was expected. For what are you waiting is a different question, and I have no answer for that one either.

Margaret Atwood

#13. By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads,by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

Muhammad Asad

#14. You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

Constantine Karamanlis

#15. I think work is a privilege ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

Denton Cooley