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Whittaker Chambers Quotes

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

Whittaker Chambers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1901 - July 9, 1961

Topics

Man Against Something Only Fact He

When my husband came to my parents' house for the first time, he asked, 'Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so angry?' I said, 'No one's angry. This is just how we communicate.'

Time Angry Parents Husband House

I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.

Time Walk Wait Black Slow End

I'm happy to fight for any role.

Fight Happy Role Any

If Congress continues to sit on its hands, and the drug companies continue to stash cash in their stockings, Americans will be forever bound in the Jacob Marley-like chains of high prices.

Hands Congress Chains Will High Sit

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

Change Power Acceptance People World

No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now.

Present Doing Routine Person Become

I've had trouble gaining access to certain people I'd really love to interview because they're worried I'll make fun of them. I'm a pretty private and self-conscious person, so I relate to that concern!

Love Fun People Person Trouble

Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it's improving the thing you already thought of six months - or six years - ago. It's the work of work.

Work Thought You Improving Up Big

I am an unpredictable journey.

Journey I Am Unpredictable Am

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Armstrong Williams

Confidence Dreams Sports Dance Self

The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.

Nature Long Patient Out Planet Her

I love acting. I would really love to act.

Love Acting Act Would Really I Love

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