Appropriates Quotes

#1. I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.

David Lehman

#2. With him, I've become like putty- rendered powerless by his magnificence- and his to mold into whatever he desires.

Giorge Leedy

#3. In suffering we find our truest selves.

Jessie Burton

#4. A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. The war on drugs makes it almost impossible for drug users to get milder forms of their drug - and it pushes them inexorably toward harder drugs.

Johann Hari

#6. I hated pickpocketing. I hated feeling like a thief.

C.L.Stone

#7. I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Roland Barthes

#8. The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources
there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.

Janine Benyus

#9. Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Ralph Nader

#10. Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Robert Fitzgerald

#11. On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.

Newt Gingrich

#12. Let everyone, everywhere know that where Your name is called upon, Your people can win battles they never should've won.

Karen Kingsbury

#13. No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Damian Lewis

#14. Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

Karl Jaspers

#15. ...evil is not always opposed to religion. Indeed, when evil appropriates the ideals and institutions of religion, the results are far more damaging than when individuals carry out self-consciously evil acts.

Bill Ellis

#16. If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.

Lamar Alexander

#17. Take me to a land where love never ends.

Debasish Mridha