Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

One thing that I would like to get across is that even the most horrible events do have explanations that we can understand. And it's not always comfortable for us to understand, because in order to understand, we have to see how we're not so far away from the people in question.

Timothy D. Snyder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 18, 1969

Topics

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Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

Jimmy Swaggart

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I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

Jessica Lange

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In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.'

Matthew Desmond

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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Jean Nidetch

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I've been able to pay the bills. I've been able to pay off my student loans. I was a homeowner before anything happened in the larger public eye.

Sterling K. Brown

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It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Sissy Spacek

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But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

Sibel Edmonds

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The comment that I've made is that if unaccompanied minors can cross the border, then certainly trained terrorists probably can, too.

Trent Franks

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Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

Trevor Phillips

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The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

Tom Stoppard

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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Rose Tremain

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The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.

Jason Isbell

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