Swooping Hawks Quotes

#1. Don't live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as if it was your father's house ... Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Nazim Hikmet, 20th century Turkish poet

Nahid Rachlin

#2. I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

Jo Brand

#3. When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.

Stephen Richards

#4. What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

Learned Hand

#6. A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.

John Steinbeck

#7. The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

Slavoj Zizek

#8. Everybody's damaged by something.

Emma Donoghue

#9. This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".

Angela Y. Davis

#10. I may never be rich or famous but I've created a whole world, where anything I want is possible what more could anyone want to achieve?

B.B. Taylor

#11. I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Sun Myung Moon

#12. I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.'

Lesley Gore

#13. I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.

Arnold Palmer

#14. Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

Woodrow Wilson