Maritain The Person Quotes

#1. The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers? - Author: Bertolt Brecht

#2. The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today. - Author: Lynne Stewart

#3. I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it. - Author: Frederick Wiseman

#4. If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile. - Author: Harland Williams

#5. When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another. - Author: Salman Rushdie

#6. Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything. - Author: Robert Mondavi

#7. I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore. - Author: Young Jeezy

#8. We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. - Author: Jacques Maritain

#9. The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions. - Author: John F. Kennedy

#10. You can always have the life you want, dare to create it. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. As I always say, leopard print is a neutral. - Author: Leandra Medine

#12. Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. - Author: Frances Hardinge