Consigning Quotes

#1. Reiko had not kept a diary and was now denied the pleasure of assiduously rereading her record of the happiness of the past few months and consigning each page to the fire as she did so.
- Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

Yukio Mishima

#2. These officials changed names they couldn't pronounce and tore people from their families, consigning to a return voyage old folks, people with bad eyes, riffraff and also those who looked insolent. Such power was dazzling. The immigrants were reminded of home. " Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

#3. Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.

Richard Dawkins

#5. If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#6. In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom
in this country and in Cuba.

David Limbaugh

#7. I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.

Alfred Enoch

#8. Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

William Ralph Inge

#9. Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

James Hogg

#10. I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

Andrew Solomon

#11. Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.

John Waters

#12. Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

Derrick Bell

#13. Our challenge is not getting the Lord to speak to us; our challenge is
understanding what He has to say.

Sheri L. Dew

#14. My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

Tim Burton

#15. Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion .

Napoleon Hill

#16. Life does not have a remote control; you need to get up and change it yourself.

Damien L. Malcolm

#17. It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.

Alfred Hitchcock

#18. It's not until you have become older and wiser that you realize ... that along it's been the people you've known the longest who want to see your down fall.

Jerome D. Williams

#19. All the seeming "coincidences" ... were actually God catching me in his arms.

Shirley Corder