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“The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.”
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“I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“obedience is a great danger.”
Source : E. M. Broner (1999). “Bringing Home the Light: A Jewish Woman's Handbook of Rituals”, Council Oaks Distribution
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“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
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“The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.”
Source : Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
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“Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.”
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“Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but no day-by-day, blow-by-blow examples. I recorded all my children over the years in some shape or form. It's what linguists do. You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.”