Top 16 Hirono Quotes
#1. I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'
Mazie Hirono
#2. The House GOP continues to fail to address the real & serious issues thatthousands of families face each day.
Mazie Hirono
#3. And she'd discovered she wasn't empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.
Courtney Milan
#4. A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#6. The best public speakers are those who seem to genuinely enjoy giving a speech. Because they're relaxed, we're relaxed.
Richard Zeoli
#7. 'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
Kevin Spacey
#8. One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Marilyn French
#9. Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
Michel De Montaigne
#10. And what if there are no damsels in distress?
What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?
Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down,
whether or not you ever show up?
Ani DiFranco
#11. There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
Sam Reed
#12. We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.
Jeremy Corbyn
#13. Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America
we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.
Stephen Colbert
#14. He liked the clover, evidence of the country always pressing in close, quietly sabotaging anyone who tried to manicure nature into suburban submission.
Helen Simonson
#15. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and hear silence, to name them, and then to become the storyteller.
Rebecca Solnit
#16. This book [...] demonstrates something we had already suspected on the grounds of the close connection between apes and man: that the social organization of chimpanzees is almost too human to be true.
Frans De Waal
