A Quotes
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“Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.”
“Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
So I’ll tell a secret instead:
poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes,
they are sleeping. They are the shadows
drifting across our ceilings the moment
before we wake up. What we have to do
is live in a way that lets us find them.”
Source: Red Suitcase
“Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.”
“Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.”
“Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.”
“Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.”
“Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for its life. The whole of the being of the animal is thrown into that fight, without reserve. When you say that the fight lacks a dimension of intellectual or imaginative horror, I agree. It is not the mode of being animals to have an intellectual horror: their whole being is in the living flesh...I urge you to walk, flank to flank, beside the beast that is prodded down the chute to his executioner.”
Source: The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]
“Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza.”
“Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.”
“Anyone who says that our worst behaviors are inevitable knows too little about primates, including us.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.”
Source: Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime
“Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.”
Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.”
Source: The Five Thousand Year Leap
“Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.”
“Anyone who says the Backstreet Boys can't sing is crazy. They're probably just reading some highbrow critic who hates anyone the general public embraces. I'm sorry, but those boys sing their butts off. They work hard on their choreography, and on their harmonies. Their tracks are tight and solid. Their songs are musical and memorable.”
“Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.”
“Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.”
“Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.”
“Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.”
“Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.”
“Anyone who says, they have no regrets, never dared to live up to their full capacity.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.”
“Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
“Anyone who says women are weak is afraid they’re too strong.”
Source: The Land I Lost
“Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.”
“Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.”
“Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.”
“Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or whatever it is. Be strong enough to go through that and win.”
“Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.”
Source: Ethics
“Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.”
“Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.”
“Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.”
“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”
“Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!”
“Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.”
“Anyone who sets foot into the Watchmen universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered Watchmen to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.”
“Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering”
Source: Healing the Traumatised Adult
“Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.”
“Anyone who shows up for a midnight opening-night screening of the latest, shiniest geek flick must be a diehard nerd. I mean, you'd have to be a killer-huge fan to wait in line for hours for the newest Star Wars or Marvel Universe film, right?”
Source: The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks
“anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]”
“Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”
“Anyone who sleeps in this room, dreams in this room, will be privy to all the stations of the tide, and will have the waves to sing them to sleep every night.”
Source: In the Shadow of Spindrift House
“Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.”
“Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.”
“Anyone who starts out with the conviction that the road to racial justice is only one lane wide will inevitably create a traffic jam and make the journey infinitely longer.”
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Anyone who still feels today that he has to lead a double life because he's gay is driven by a fear that I think is unfounded.”
“Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.”