Ascetic Backgrounds Quotes

#1. There are a lot of people missing in Iraq. Just the other day I heard of somebody asking $250,000 ransom for an Egyptian. Can you imagine? An Egyptian. That's inflation. This war," he said, leaning closer to her, "is all about money.

Leslie Cockburn

#2. I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms.

David Levithan

#3. Good enough'isn't enough.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#4. Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

Felix Frankfurter

#5. Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me." Slowly,

Sheryl Sandberg

#6. Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.

Daniel Keyes

#7. The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution.

Marco Rubio

#8. Evidence is the debris of a careless mind.

Brian Farrey

#9. Patience is being friends with Time.

Vanna Bonta

#10. After the fighting is done, and even when it's still happening, apologies are often needed for the recounting of bare facts. Sometimes bare facts feel unpatriotic.

Phil Klay

#11. My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.

Grace Paley

#12. We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

Deepak Chopra

#13. I've been thinking. Her eyebrows rose, but he was used to surprise whenever he claimed an idea. Even when his ideas were as good as theirs, they always remembered how deliberate he was in thinking of them.

Robert Jordan

#14. The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

Martin McGuinness