"If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism."

-- Stanley Hauerwas

#Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes #United States Quotes

“Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.”
“I set myself a rule before I actually write a tune to the lyrics, and the rule is that I've got to take the lyrics on to a level of understanding before I can actually write music to them. What I'm doing is interpretation. If I don't write the lyrics, therefore I must interpret them to the best of my ability. So my rule is that I must understand it, but I don't necessarily have to accept.”

Source : Source: www.thisisyesterday.com
“Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.”

Source : John Denham, “Cooper's Hill”
“My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.”
“That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.”

Source : "Personality: Dr. Israel Shahak" by Richard H. Curtiss", the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, www.wrmea.org. June 1989.
“Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.”
“I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.”
“I've never gotten used to winter and never will.”

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