Samantha Power Quotes

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Samantha Power

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 21, 1970

Topics

HumanOutRightsDecideHistorical

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

Jim Mattis

PauseNuclearAchievedHalt

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

Trip Hawkins

PerformanceSayingGenerationBetter

Everybody grows in their own way.

Robbie Robertson

WayOwnGrowsEverybody

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

LoveWomenWordsLearnBackHard

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

Loretta Lynn

TimeFirst TimeFirstHimSoldier

I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?

Lisa Hanawalt

LoveBookYouKnowPlasticPieces

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

EnergyKnowStrangeReflectAway

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

Jonathan Dee

New YorkNewPersonalSumSynthesis

It doesn't matter if it's a small role: if I know I can pull it off and have a good team, I will do it.

Disha Patani

GoodTeamSmallI CanKnowMatter

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

William Scott

PaintingReactionMayAgainstLast

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Thomas Huxley

FreedomI AmMeCareWrongReady

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

Rick Yune

HistoryBondYearsBeingRuinedNut

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