E Quotes
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“Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a higher point of view and preserve the political foundation of bilateral ties.”
“Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order. Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak. Throughout history, demagogues have often outperformed democrats in generating popular fervor, and it is almost always because they are perceived to be more decisive and sure in their judgments.
In times of relative tranquility, we feel we can afford to be patient. We understand that policy questions are complicated and merit careful thought. We want our leaders to consult experts, gather as much information as possible, test assumptions, and give us a chance to voice our opinions on the available options. We see long-term planning as necessary and deliberation as a virtue, but when we decide that action is urgently needed, our tolerance for delay disappears.
In those moments, many of us no longer want to be asked, “What do you think?” We want to be told where to march. That is when Fascism gets its start: other options don’t seem enough.”
Source: Fascism: A Warning
“Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.”
“Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.”
“Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.”
“Especially when you're faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that's what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times.”
“Especially where the implications of what we think we are seeing seem to be profound, we may not exercise adequate self-discipline and self-criticism.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?”
“Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.”
“Especially with a magazine like Lampoon, which was very dependent on newsstand sales. Our readers didn't usually occupy the same address long enough to get a subscription, because they were in college, or they were hippies. So it was very up-and-down, and we had to calculate how many to print, which was always sort of a headache from a business point of view.”
“Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.”
“Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.”
“Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.”
“Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.”
“Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to get the weather or whatever.”
“Especially with me working in the entertainment industry, I think my kids are aware of weight and fat much earlier than other kids. It was important to me from the beginning to make sure they understand things like why too much sugar is bad for you, etc.”
“Especially with music, people want confidence.”
“Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.”
Source: Whole child, whole parent
“Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.”
“Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.”
“Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult has gotten earlier with TV shows that are on right now and video games. They all contribute to that.”
“Especially without coverage, we have made it to 4, 5, 6% in the polls just on the power of the public interest out there from Americans who feel like they've been thrown under the bus by the two conventional parties.”
“Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.”
“Especialmente la medicina era un culto satánico porque lucha contra la enfermedad que era un merecido castigo de Dios, porque al curar el cuerpo se obstaculizaba el camino del alma hacia el cielo.”
Source: Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
“Especialmente os adolescentes e os jovens, que sentem impelente a chamada do amor dentro de si, têm necessidade de ser libertados do preconceito difundido de que o cristianismo, com os seus mandamentos e as suas proibições, coloca demasiados obstáculos à alegria do amor, e sobretudo que impede que se aprecie plenamente aquela felicidade que o homem e a mulher encontram no seu amor recíproco. Pelo contrário, a fé e a ética cristãs não querem sufocar o amor, mas torná-lo sadio, forte e verdadeiramente livre: é precisamente este o sentido dos Dez Mandamentos, que não são uma série de "nãos", mas um grande "sim" ao amor e à vida.”
“Esperaba que aprendiese a
afrontar el dolor, a convivir con él —sonrió con tristeza a Celaena—.
Si aprendes a soportar el dolor, eres capaz de sobrevivir a todo.”
“Esperamos duas noites até a lua cheia, a fase indicada para a coroação, onde acredita-se que um eco entre as dimensões pode ser ouvido e nossas preces, enfim, atendidas.”
Source: Era de Sombras e Lembranças
“Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.”
“Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.”
“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 1
Earth is but a bedlam,
All the beings are loonies.
We are so engrossed in prejudice,
Integration feels like blasphemy.
We still cannot live side by side,
We want it all for ourselves.
We won't even move a single inch,
When it comes to our opinion and ways.
Selfishness, thy name is Sapiens,
Upon its norm we philosophize kindness.
We invented fancy terms like altruism,
Lest we're infected with common humanness.
Humanity is too alive to be bound by ism.
Dead things can be dogmatized, not expansion.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 10
Nationality is not the trouble, real trouble is nationalism,
And nationalism is the super weapon in a politician's arsenal.
When nothing works, peddling nationalism works every time,
For insecure citizenry can't tell nationality from nationalism.
So in practice, all the wars of the world are caused by citizens,
But it feels good to blame the bad things on politicians.
Once the citizens grow up to not be swayed by nationalism,
No authoritarian nincompoop can make them dance.
Nationality is a tool, what it is not is a badge of supremacy,
Just like culture is a tool, and not a badge of authority.
If we must dance, let us dance to life, not to baseless fright,
If we must take a step, let's take a step towards humanity.
Borders exist to aid the functioning of the fabric of society.
They are not some olympian designation of your identity.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 18
Clothes or the lack of it, don't make,
A person obscene, only behavior does.
Who are you to judge someone's expression,
But, here there are plenty grey areas!
Problem is, when obscenity becomes expression,
Misbehavior is deemed declaration of independence.
Too many people confuse attention with admiration,
And a stunt as some wonderful achievement.
Accepting obscenity as freedom of expression,
Is like showing tolerance to intolerance.
Posing butt naked on instagram, unless you're pornstar,
Is like barging into capitol with a flag confederate.
We must find a balance between comfort and conscience.
Civilization falls apart when we can't tell the difference.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 30
There is nothing free about your will,
All of it is conditioned to the hilt.
If you are to foster any original will,
A lot of soil you've got to till.
Perception is not observation,
Perception is prediction.
The brain doesn't care about observing,
It only puts forward a self-serving illusion.
Your will is but puppet to that illusion,
Which means you are but a puppet to evolution.
You do have the brain power to take control,
But it'll take a lot of inconvenient self-correction.
If you can do that, you shall rise as sapiens.
Or you'll just end up as compost in nature's garden.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 39
I need a religion,
With less pomposity and more simplicity.
I need a religion,
With less noise and more tranquility.
I need a religion,
With less pollution and more sustainability.
I need a religion,
With less malnutrition and more magnanimity.
I need a religion,
With less citadels and more sidewalk.
I need a religion,
With less barking and more footwork.
Yet when I look around I get choked with all the pollution.
Perhaps the religion I seek doesn't exist, for I am my religion.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 5
Our whole life we're taught to live behind the veil,
It is forbidden to even dream of removing it.
To really seal the deal society calls this tradition,
So that we feel guilty if we cross our ancestral limit.
This is how habits are proudly passed on as heritage,
And bigotry as the highest form of enlightenment.
Thus, integration is deemed as the ultimate treachery,
And peace remains a matter of armchair amusement.
If you are to choose between tradition and humanity,
I say, treat your ancestors as children not sage.
Those who pass on division and discrimination,
Deserve neither seriousness nor allegiance.
Truth is not the journey from one veil to another.
Truth involves peeling the veil one layer after another.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Esperanza means hope in Spanish.”
Source: Esperanza Rising
“Esperar, dicen. El qué
no importa. Por eso
de pie es conveniente. En otra
posición esperar
acorta la esperanza”
“Esperar, no fundo, não passa de um exercício pouco próprio aos humanos. Já as árvores suportam melhor esse estádio.”
Source: E Se Amanhã o Medo
“Esperar não é a mesma coisa que ficar à espera.”
Source: Voices Made Night
“Esperar. Otra vez. ¿Os habéis parado a contar cuánto tiempo perdemos en nuestra vida solo esperando algo?”
Source: Mentira
“Esperar tercamente frente a una puerta bien cerrada es injusto para todas las puertas abiertas.
Dale una oportunidad a las puertas abiertas.”
“Esperaram pelo sono para se mudarem para o dia seguinte. Havia sempre esperança na travessia nocturna. Cada deus revia a criação no quieto da noite. Acender os dias era sempre a possibilidade de uma nova criação. Era importante dormir com esperança.”
Source: Homens Imprudentemente Poéticos
“Esperava embebedá-lo, encontrar alguma coisa que não gostasse sobre aquele miserável filho da mãe que é muito melhor do que eu.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )”
“Espero curarme de ti en unos días. Debo dejar de fumarte, de beberte, de pensarte. Es posible. Siguiendo las prescripciones de la moral en turno. Me receto tiempo, abstinencia, soledad.
¿Te parece bien que te quiera nada más una semana? No es mucho, ni es poco, es bastante. En una semana se puede reunir todas las palabras de amor que se han pronunciado sobre la tierra y se les puede prender fuego. Te voy a calentar con esa hoguera del amor quemado. Y también el silencio. Porque las mejores palabras del amor están entre dos gentes que no se dicen nada.
Hay que quemar también ese otro lenguaje lateral y subversivo del que ama. (Tú sabes cómo te digo que te quiero cuando digo: «qué calor hace», «dame agua», «¿sabes manejar?», «se hizo de noche»... Entre las gentes, a un lado de tus gentes y las mías, te he dicho «ya es tarde», y tú sabías que decía «te quiero»).
Una semana más para reunir todo el amor del tiempo. Para dártelo. Para que hagas con él lo que quieras: guardarlo, acariciarlo, tirarlo a la basura. No sirve, es cierto. Sólo quiero una semana para entender las cosas. Porque esto es muy parecido a estar saliendo de un manicomio para entrar a un panteón.”
Source: Recuento de poemas, 1950-93
“Espero ese día.
Espero con ansias el día en que voy a estar sonriendo desde el Cielo, preguntándome lo que hizo a mi papá ser tan enfermo, retorcido y podrido. Espero con interés el día en que lo pueda perdonar por todo lo que ha hecho y verlo desde una nube en el cielo, rezando por su alma condenada, mientras que él está bañado en llamas, y quemándose en el infierno.”
Source: Insanity
“Espero no extrañar nunca estos días que al besarte me sentía único en el mundo.”
Source: El amor es como un pan con mantequilla
“Espero que la soledad sea vuestra mejor maestra. El eco de los pensamientos, una vez que las cosas se derrumban, es la única realidad.”
Source: Sobredosis
“Espero que não pense que sou um monstro por escolher minha vida, ao menos uma vez. Foi preciso deixar meu sonho e meu amor morrerem para que eu percebesse que ainda estava viva. Só sei que não posso continuar naquela personagem, aquela versão mal-acabada de mim, um zumbi que se perdeu. Tudo o que preciso é de uma chance de sair desse beco no qual me encontro. Entenda, há coisas que, depois que descobrimos, nunca mais nos deixam voltar atrás. Não é como se você pudesse esquecer aquilo o que aprendeu.”
“Espero que venga. Que salga y me pida perdón. O que salga y me grite por ser un cobarde.(...)
Sé que es inmaduro, pero no me importa. A veces necesitas que tu mejor amigo cruce la puerta. Pero no lo hace.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson