Eftermiddagen Quotes

#1. I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#2. The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.

Djimon Hounsou

#3. One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

Gerald Stern

#5. Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#6. In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Jerome Bruner

#7. People themselves would grind one another down and tear one another to pieces, and the best would fall dead in the struggle while the worst would turn into animals.

Andrei Platonov

#8. There are two types of persons in the world. If you're not the majority, you're either dead or succeeding at something.

Robin Sacredfire

#9. Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Thomas Sowell

#10. Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Samuel Johnson

#11. The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.

David Mitchell

#12. I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Marilyn Monroe

#13. Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

Emmylou Harris

#14. There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

Dennis Prager