Peter Benenson Quotes

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

Peter Benenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 31, 1921 - February 25, 2005

Topics

DayReligionGovernmentWorldYou

Spring Training is a fun time for me.

Joe Torre

TimeTrainingFunSpringMe

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

Robert Preston

MarriageI AmSomeoneWhoGiverAm

I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.

Max Irons

FeelSneakersComfortableNeverWear

Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.

Matt Cameron

TodayBestFriendsHometownI Can

It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity.

Steve Buscemi

OpportunityMeLookingFeelI Can

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

Steve Albini

FishingManLovedReal ManWorth

No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

Rodrigo Duterte

LeaderSupportPeopleSucceedStrong

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Mike Krzyzewski

ImaginationFreeMissedAlwaysLane

I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day.

Janice Dickinson

DayRelaxEvery DayMinutesYoga

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Diana Wynne Jones

MeYouKnowFantasyWaySee

I remember hitting the ball, and I didn't even realise where it went, and then I turned over, and I see the official bending down holding his eye.

Denis Shapovalov

EyeRememberDownOverSeeI See

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

Chrisette Michele

LoveTimeSchoolPeopleLaughNice

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