James Orbinski Quotes

#1. Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?

Bill Maher

#2. We saw you all dancing in the glory of the monster.

Jason Stearns

#3. The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other. Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics
can become genocidal.

James Orbinski

#4. There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.

Whit Stillman

#5. a~call it a blessing or call it a curse, but I see all of life in verse~

Lynn Orloff

#6. Has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?

Siobhan Dowd

#7. No gravity, no fallen angels.

Toba Beta

#8. I wanted to be able to live in the world so that I could live with myself. I wanted to do something practical to relieve the suffering of others, while at the same time striving to understand the circumstances of such suffering.

James Orbinski

#9. The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.

Ismail Haniyeh

#10. Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.

James Orbinski

#11. Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#12. I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris.

Jessye Norman

#13. An artist is an explorer.

Henri Matisse

#14. A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.

E. M. Forster

#15. If you follow me, you must be spinning round, because i have not destination.

DonaDevil

#16. I have learned that feat is the mother of fearlessness, and the beginning of possibility. spoken by Paul Hogan and recounted.

James Orbinski