Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hofstadter

There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

Richard Dawkins

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

Richelle Mead

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Ronda Rousey

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

Romeo Dallaire

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Whitley Strieber

Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad.

Sarah Rees Brennan

If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?

Sara Zarr

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

Sara Bareilles

The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.

Bob Rogers

I was looking at the stats (from 2004). And there were an awful lot of kills we're going to need to get elsewhere now.

Teju Cole

I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.

Richard Aboulafia

Keeping costs down and getting close to the customer makes an awful lot of sense when the revenue environment is flattening.

Spencer Abraham

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

Joe Evans

I think it's awful that because of a personal conflict, Mr. Spinks thinks it's necessary to do something that may have the effect of disrupting the whole festival and the whole county loses.

David Kennedy

It could be false, but an awful lot of it gels. Unless the guy's been much more surreptitious than these guys usually are, it's probable that law enforcement is on his trail.

Joseph J. Lhota

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Dave Odom

To get back here and play in the world's greatest arena, this late in the season, for a university and a team who have a great deal of pride, it means an awful lot.

Martin Tobias

I think we found out an awful lot last week. We've got a group of kids who don't have any quit in them. They played hard.

Umberto Eco

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Heinz Guderian

When the situation is obscure, attack

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Ted Cruz

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Stephen Young

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.