Top 100 Snyder Quotes
#2. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.
Scott Snyder
#3. He was the test I hadn't studied for, the quiz I was bound to fail. Out of my depth.
Maria V. Snyder
#4. History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.
Timothy Snyder
#5. I had hoped to hear everyone discussing how much they missed my altruistic qualities, my legendary skills as a fighter and as a lover." He leered. "Instead, you're making plans for tomorrow. Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself.
Maria V. Snyder
#6. I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here.
Maria V. Snyder
#7. ...every day we fill up with anxiety just makes life much harder than it needs to be." Those are words I need tattooed to my forehead!
John I. Snyder
#8. But sometimes it doesn't matter whether someone is right or wrong. Sometimes you just have to love them when they need you.
Laurel Snyder
#9. I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.'
Daniel Snyder
#10. The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.
Daniel Snyder
#11. But just know that there is evil in the world. Real evil. You can fight it, or you can hide and pretend it doesn't exist.
Scott Snyder
#12. People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.
Tom Snyder
#13. I look at each day as a chance to move one notch above yesterday - whether it's in service quality, delivery, speed, or any other aspect of the business.
Daniel Snyder
#14. Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.
Timothy Snyder
#16. same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism
Timothy Snyder
#17. The predominant view was that budgets should be balanced and money supplies tightened. This, as we know today, only made matters worse.
Timothy Snyder
#18. I'm glad you're here. We've had some ... interesting developments." Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger.
Maria V. Snyder
#19. your rainbow colors
come out to play when it pours -
chase the gray away
Betsy E. Snyder
#20. I know he brings out a better side in me, something that has been missing." ~ Char
T.H. Snyder
#21. What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams
Gary Snyder
#22. I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
Zack Snyder
#23. The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
Vic Snyder
#24. The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
Dana Snyder
#25. Romans says the creation was 'subjected to frustration, in hope that it will be liberated from its bondage to decay.' In hope! There is hope for the earth. As Christians, we can and should have hope for the earth, as well as our hope of heaven.
Howard A. Snyder
#26. Hope is the sum oJperceived capabilities to produce routes to desired goals, along with the perceived motivation to use those routes.
C. Richard Snyder
#27. The world is now changing, reviving fears that were familiar in Hitler's time, and to which Hitler responded. The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been learned.
Timothy Snyder
#28. True affluence is not needing anything.
Gary Snyder
#29. There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
Gary Snyder
#30. One thing Valek did know how to do - sew. The other assassins hadn't called him the King Knitter for nothing.
Maria V. Snyder
#31. But opposing evil requires inspiration by what is sound rather than by what is resonant.
Timothy Snyder
#32. Yippee. I've been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I'll write a letter home to Mother. She'll be so pleased.
Leif
Maria V. Snyder
#33. Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams.
Gary Snyder
#34. I don't know John Riggins. I mean, I've met him a few times, and I had dinner with him once.
Daniel Snyder
#35. To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
Midori Snyder
#36. I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'
Zack Snyder
#37. Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.
Zack Snyder
#38. You haven't really lived if you don't wonder how you've lived this long.
D. Clarence Snyder
#40. Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant.
Gary Snyder
#41. I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
Dana Snyder
#42. I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them.
Dana Snyder
#43. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.
Timothy Snyder
#44. I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.
Daniel Snyder
#45. Batman was human. He had no powers. He stood next to Gods and said, I handle my city.
Scott Snyder
#46. She put her hands on her hips and surveyed the area with a cocky smile on her face. The smirk spread when the traitor met my gaze.
"No hello for your old friend?" she asked me. "Don't be rude Baby Face."
"Go to hell, Wynn.
Maria V. Snyder
#47. Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If
Timothy Snyder
#48. Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.
Gary Snyder
#49. Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.
Carrie Snyder
#50. Ursan flourished the knife, threatening me. "Talk, or I'll start cutting off body parts."
"Yours? Or mine?" I kept my voice steady despite my insides twisting into goo. "It's an important distinction.
Maria V. Snyder
#51. Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?
Maria V. Snyder
#52. You can certainly concede freedom without becoming more secure. The
Timothy Snyder
#53. In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins' legacy.
Daniel Snyder
#54. Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Gary Snyder
#55. A true hero is the one who knows that often as not the dragon is in the damsel and not the other way around.
Midori Snyder
#58. Janco smiled with a predatory grin. If anyone beats us. And I'm feeling disinclined to allow that to happen.
Maria V. Snyder
#59. You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet."
"Oh real funny. Tease the blind man."
~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115
Maria V. Snyder
#60. I came to Harbor House when I was a boy. I was looking for the Court of Owls. That time I found nothing. Not tonight.
Scott Snyder
#62. When states are absent, rights - by any definition - are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.
Timothy Snyder
#65. Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl.
"Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin.
Maria V. Snyder
#66. stay together
learn the flowers
go light
Gary Snyder
#67. In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day."
"When did he finally stop?" I asked.
"Yesterday.
Maria V. Snyder
#69. I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.
Zack Snyder
#70. A nationalist will say that "it can't happen here," which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.
Timothy Snyder
#71. Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What happened when you knocked on the southerner magician's door to sacrifice yourself? Did they kick you out, thinking you too half-witted to waste their time on?
Maria V. Snyder
#72. I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetratio n for all.
Gary Snyder
#73. In his 2016 campaign, the American president used the slogan "America First," which is the name of a committee that sought to prevent the United States from opposing Nazi Germany.
Timothy Snyder
#74. You're living in the present. It's a reminder that you can see the future if you just point the glass in the right direction.
Maria V. Snyder
#75. This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard.
Loretta Sanchez
#76. But she also said that by staying strong, you can become the light for those who need you most.
Scott Snyder
#77. With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.
Gary Snyder
#78. Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
Gary Snyder
#79. I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.
Gary Snyder
#80. The word "Auschwitz" has become a metonym for the Holocaust as a whole. Yet the vast majority of Jews had already been murdered, further east, by the time that Auschwitz became a major killing facility. Yet while Auschwitz has been remembered, most of the Holocaust has been largely forgotten.
Timothy Snyder
#81. Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on notice. You should not be punished for doing the right thing. It is the job of a good investigator to get the truth.
C. Snyder
#82. Thought is just an apprehension of touch.
Gary Snyder
#83. You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.
Zack Snyder
#85. Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.
Timothy Snyder
#87. Our souls bonded. His pleasure was my ecstasy. My blood pumped in his heart.
Maria V. Snyder
#88. The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.
Maria V. Snyder
#89. The claim that order is freedom or that freedom is order ends in tyranny.
Timothy Snyder
#90. gentle and innocent as wolves
as tricky as a prince
Gary Snyder
#91. I know I'm immature in some ways, but inside me there's a cranky old lady yelling at the damn kids to get off her lawn. She's been there awhile. I've decided to call her Mabel.
Lucy A. Snyder
#94. Every moment is an opportunity. Use it wisely.
Tammy Snyder
#95. I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'
Dana Snyder
#96. Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.
Maria V. Snyder
#97. This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.
Faye Snyder
#99. Can you feel your pulse? That means Valek isn't here, because if he was, you'd be dead. No pulse.
Maria V. Snyder
#100. The German settlers would defend Europe itself at the Ural Mountains, against the Asiatic barbarism that would be forced back to the east. Strife at civilization's edge would test the manhood of coming generations of German settlers.
Timothy Snyder
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