“People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.” PeopleThinkingGirlAudienceNiceTerribleOppositesAbsolutesTerrible ThingsAbsolute PowerNice Girl Author:Sarah Silverman
“I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.” PeopleKnowsFeelsEnoughFunAbsolutesFortunate Author:Mickey Rooney
“I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.” PeopleIfsMenFeelingsWantedRememberBeliefFateImagineHe ManDeterminationAbsolutesPaintShouldersNecksConcentrationDisappointedPassivePapaBeing Disappointed Author:Susan Vreeland
“And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.” PeopleIfsMeanMadeCountryAmericaLawDutyWeakAbsolutesInstrumentsSakeSupremeRationalMinistersWickedInstructionGovernorsColonyDuty To God Author:Samuel Adams
“The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.” PeopleHas BeensSaidDoneWorstAbsolutesTreatedElitesWorst ThingsGeorgiaSavannah Author:Clarence Thomas
“The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.” PeopleThinkingNumbersMistakeLeaderTakenSawsAbsolutesStructureFollowingAccurateCharismaticAbsolute PowerPower CorruptsAbsolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Author:Frank Herbert
“Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.” PeopleResultsDemocracyAbsolutesExtremesWealthyExcessDespotismOligarchy Author:Aristotle
“Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.” PeopleYearsFirstsNumbersSurvivalFirst TimeAbsolutesMethodRateCancerTreatmentDecreaseDetectionPeople With CancerCancer Death Author:Ike Skelton
“True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.” PeopleMayDifferentJoySimpleEmotionSilenceAwarenessObjectsNeededQuietAbsolutesSilentRefuseTreasureWho We AreDiscoveringFulfilledUnlimitedSilence IsOverflowAbsolute Love Author:Gangaji
“Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.” PeopleWorldPresidentEffortPovertyProjectsPercentTraditionAbsolutesHungerPatternsBillionsDiscriminationOur WorldRealisticHolmesHunger And Poverty Book:The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics Source: The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
“As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.” PeopleWorldLongMatterStatesProblemGovernmentFoundCausesPoorLeaderLordCitizensPoliticianSolutionsAbsolutesFinancialInequalityGrantsHorizonHealthcareAutonomySpeculationAttackingDisturbedHeedRejecting Author:Pope Francis
“Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.” PeopleMenReasonLawCertainKnownFiveEconomicProduceSolitudeSixExcitingAbsolutesLiberalismDozenMaking LoveEroticMasturbation Book:Whatever: A Novel Source: Whatever: A Novel
“I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.” PeopleThinkingMayChildrenAuthorityAdultsRelationAbsolutesGapsDislikeMisuse Author:Barney Frank