Peter Benenson Amnesty International Quotes

#1. Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Ludwig Borne

#2. A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?

Robin Sharma

#3. A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

Laozi

#4. Your thoughts are like broken stars, it appears for short period of time. So note them and share with the intellectuals who cut and polish them like diamonds.

Rakesh Wadhwani

#5. Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

James Geary

#7. You are my first so many things, Alec Lightwood

Cassandra Clare

#8. I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. She is prettier than her picture had prepared me for, blond curls, big blue eyes, like a fake child that someone would make in order to convince people to have children.

Kevin Wilson

#10. Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!

Gabrielle Dubois

#11. I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee.

Lisa Renee Jones

#12. Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Peter Benenson

#13. These words are yours,
though you never said them,
you never heard them, history
breeds death but if you kill
it you kill yourself.

Margaret Atwood

#14. If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.

John C. McGinley

#15. Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

Jules Renard