“Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.” WellsLooksDoeTurnsFictionLet MeClaimsResponsibleLuckSakeTricksFancySpiteSatisfyingSurprisingPuzzlesShiftingDiversionLet Me Down Author:Alice Munro
“Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.” ThinkingFeelsHas BeensSelfStatesLawDesireUnitedAttentionPrinciplesUnited StatesDemocracyPolicySpeechDeterminationClaimsSakeInternationalSelf DeterminationFreedom Of SpeechAssemblyInternational LawFreedom Of Assembly Author:Edward Said
“Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness.” ActionAmericaGreatnessDiversityClaimsSakeAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.” IdeasCareCuttingWifeWrittenSonReadyFameRedClaimsSakeDon't CareBonesBunchIdiotI Don't CareSandHatsBagsThroatExesHomelandHaresSandalsEx WifeTotes Author:Michael Chabon
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.” WorldHumansPhilosophyLastsIndividualDifficultHuman BeingsLove IsTasksTestsUltimateClaimsSakeProofPreparation Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.” EarthTurnsIndividualInterestGenerationsSacrificeAmountClaimsSakeExpectedPassingPassingsBitternessEgotismMomentaryIncessantlyFelony Book:Hugo's Works Source: Hugo's Works