Source: Detective Story (2008), p. 13.
Taylor Horn (1992) American musician and actor
On becoming her own person as a professional musician. <br class="br"> Malvern Gaz http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1256525759902277&url=www.geocities.com/thecoolchip03/malverngaz.htm article, unidentified issue
“People want to stand for something, which means opposing those who stand for something else.”
Harvey Mansfield (1932) Author, professor
How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)
Context: People want to stand for something, which means opposing those who stand for something else. In the course of opposing they will often resort to insults and name-calling, which are normal in politics though never in your interest. The demand for more civility in politics today should be directed toward improving the quality of our insults, seeking civility in wit rather than blandness.
“Now," Graves finally said, "anyone else want to piss me off? Anyone else think this is a goddamn?”
Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer
Source: Betrayals
“That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
“Do Something Nice for Someone Else — and Don't Tell Anyone About It”
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
Title of Lesson 8
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff (1997)
John Hagee (1940) American pastor, theologian and saxophonist
Keynote address to AIPAC, (March 12, 2007)
“I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
