"I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians."

-- Peter Stuyvesant

#Christian Quotes #Blood Quotes #Hundred Quotes

“A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.”
“Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.”
“There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.”
“The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.”
“War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.”
“It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues â€“ of chance no chance, mistakes no mistakes. No erasing or reproduction is possible, at least in the way I work, leaving natureâ€™s mark. It is unique and final.”

Source : Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
“Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.”

Source : "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.
“When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.”

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