Thomas Buergenthal Quotes

#1. I know my mom always likes to give the over-the-top 'wow' pieces at baby showers.

Kourtney Kardashian

#2. It seemed that we were condemned to be who we were, which was not a particularly good prospect.

Thomas Buergenthal

#3. But what else could we do but hope? that, after all, is human nature.

Thomas Buergenthal

#4. That hope never left us, and it sustained us in the years to come, despite the fact that we had no good reason to expect our situation to improve.

Thomas Buergenthal

#5. So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment.

Jane Smiley

#6. The Vulgar sham of the pompous feast Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest The organised charity, scrimped and iced In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ."1 - John Boyle O'Reilly

Tim Pat Coogan

#7. .. . one cannot hope to protect mankind from crimes such as those that were visited upon us unless one struggles to brek the cycle of hatred and voilence that invariable leads to ever more suffering by innocent human beings.

Thomas Buergenthal

#8. I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.

Gillian Armstrong

#9. All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Bethenny Frankel

#10. It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.

Joyce DiDonato

#11. Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, being less painful, is more objective?

Thomas Buergenthal

#12. I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

Rachel McAdams

#13. Can you believe the weather?' ... 'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.

Maria Semple

#14. If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past?

Thomas Buergenthal