Pontification Platform Quotes

#1. The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#2. Pain is just another form of information.

Don DeLillo

#3. Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to exist. About three women a day are murdered by spouses or ex-spouses in this country. It's one of the main causes of death for pregnant women in the United States. At

Rebecca Solnit

#4. I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Elvis Presley

#5. Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth.

John Hopkins

#6. The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#7. Today I'm feeling uncharacteristically chiaroscuro, and I don't know what that means for my future, or as a word.

Jarod Kintz

#8. While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

Kathe Kollwitz

#9. The monkey's face had more emotions than a human's: curiosity, pity, exhaustion, like he'd already seen too much. Danny had to look away.

Jennifer Egan

#10. When Allah loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.

Omar Suleiman

#11. He felt a mixture of fear and excitement, but his main concerns were not dying, making his mentors proud, and not making a fool of himself, in that order of importance.

Wesley Chu