Pezzuto Obituaries Quotes

#1. Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.

H.L. Mencken

#2. Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Meryl Streep

#3. While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.

Amy Waldman

#4. Be comfortable in the narrow streets because they will take you to the wider streets!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady

#6. The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. 'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we ... ' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

Samuel R. Delany

#8. They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them. -Corinna

Carole Geithner

#9. Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

Mason Cooley

#10. To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.

Brene Brown

#11. Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.

Lindy Boggs

#12. A number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions taken by Sharia councils, and that is a significant concern.

Theresa May

#13. Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

Cris Mazza