Junctures Quotes

#1. The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

Spencer Abraham

#2. The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey's speech proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

Jill Purce

#4. Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

Randeep Hooda

#5. I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

Dan Flavin

#7. Evoke at painful junctures, when discouragement threatens to raise its head, the image of a vast cretinous mouth, red blubber and slobbering, in solitary confinement, extruding indefatigably, with a noise of wet kisses and washing in a tub, the words that obstruct it.

Samuel Beckett

#8. At those critical junctures, the question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living.

Paul Kalanithi

#9. At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual,

Raul Hilberg

#10. But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life.

Ben Fountain

#11. At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation.

Michael Meade

#12. No man has the right to say to his country

Charles Stewart Parnell

#13. We thought we had time. I waved but couldn't answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wide as I'd wanted all afternoon, all evening, every sec of every minute with you, Ed. Shit, I guess I already loved you then.

Daniel Handler

#14. People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one.

Craig Venter

#15. Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.

Tove Jansson

#16. I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#17. My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

Herbie Mann

#18. You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.

Gary Ross

#19. A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#20. Because love is the most dangerous weapon in the world. It's more unstable than uranium.

Rick Yancey

#21. Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.

William Monahan

#22. The thing I like about Bush is I think he hates liberals.

Ann Coulter

#23. We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.

Marcus Luttrell