Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the rule of law find other ways to speak about real terrorist threats, and certainly do not invent them or deliberately make them worse.

Timothy D. Snyder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SafetyLawSpeakEndWishFind

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

Jim Barksdale

BusinessOrganizationWorldSmall

I've never had a terrible job. I've been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are, and I haven't done them.

Ann Patchett

TeacherJobBadKnowDoneNever

I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.

Michael J. Anderson

ThinkEverythingUsHeI ThinkZone

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

Stephen Tobolowsky

LifeLosingHairThinkMy Life

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

KnowledgeScienceKnowPoliticians

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

Mary Augusta Ward

HopeInterestingSayWillCannot

If, by some miracle, women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.

Lorraine Hansberry

WomenMenPeaceEndureSingleHer

For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could be the lower price. Could be the mellow character, which lends itself to long hours of fireside sipping. Or it could just be tradition.

Jonathan Miles

CharacterTraditionLongPriceWay

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

Chinua Achebe

DemocracyStartWake UpLearnYear

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

Brian Selznick

WorkStartThinkMagicNowMovies

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You've got to go your own way, and that's what I did.

Alice Munro

MotherGrowing UpThinkYouGrowing

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

Alicia Witt

LifeGoodCreativeYouPersonal

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