If he is going to go to war in a nation whose history shows it has never had a democracy -- it has rival tribes, it has minorities that often are antagonistic -- how we're going to create a government that's going to work and function and bring about a democracy after we've destroyed the infrastructure of the country?


Diane Feinstein

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is...
DEYTH BANGER
We are going to make a stronger, better, truer democracy....We will boldly go where America has neve...
GEORGE TAKEI
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA
Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards,
JOHN MCCAIN
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON
There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has ...
WILL ROGERS
The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that h...
WILL ROGERS
If you are going to be in that type of position, you better even things out. All men are created equ...
DANNY FORTSON
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE
The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE
Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE
It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS
And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS
And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS
You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS
The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS
…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS
For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS
In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT
People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t...
SAVI SHARMA
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
JOHN CHARLES POLANYI
You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor.
PAWAN MISHRA
As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON
How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER
It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it...
DAVID HARSANYI
37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound d...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how...
DEYTH BANGER
He knew exactly what was going on and he has a clear idea about how he wanted to work on it followin...
GORDON DAVIDSON
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government ove...
LARRY PAGE
A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE
After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE
Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE
Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY
We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS
There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pl...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americ...
BARBARA BOXER
After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
BRENT SCOWCROFT
War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are ...
ALAN MOORE
that the federal government understands that it has a major commitment here. It's going to be requir...
HALEY BARBOUR
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE
When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C.
He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to conf...
ROBERT A. DAHL
It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI
Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE
Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE
To everyone battling a difficulty or under attack right now, smile, keep your head up, keep moving a...
GERMANY KENT
Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Why is he going to Mongolia? ... It is part of the mantra of Bush's second term of promoting democra...
DEREK MITCHELL
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
GM has a long history of poor performance and all of sudden they start doing well. Everyone is force...
DAVID BRADLEY
Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.
HEATHER WOLF
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a...
BERNIE SANDERS
If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to bu...
DEYTH BANGER
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must ha...
HENRY COMMAGER

More Diane Feinstein

[Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., obviously not a student of history, is demanding that Roberts cough...
DIANE FEINSTEIN
Do you believe that the right to privacy applies to the beginning of life and the end of life?
DIANE FEINSTEIN
I think these efforts really have been totally overwhelmed by the pervasive endemic corruption throu...
DIANE FEINSTEIN
an inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.
DIANE FEINSTEIN
It would be very difficult ... for me to vote to confirm someone whom I knew would overturn Roe v. W...
DIANE FEINSTEIN
I really don't think we're in the same position as Arizona or New Mexico because Operation Gatekeepe...
DIANE FEINSTEIN
What you see is major Democratic elected officials in the state of California supporting this Republ...
DIANE FEINSTEIN
the will and the culture of this nation in ways that are everlasting and profound.
DIANE FEINSTEIN
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Par...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; wh...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't ...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where peo...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are ...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is ...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits f...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being ch...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. W...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at t...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of t...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Survival is nothing more than recovery.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I can't be a Californian and believe that every member of the Supreme Court has to come out of Harva...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
The pivotal appointment is the next one.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have ...
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh...
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Gua...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
George had called me and asked me if I'd do it. I said sure.
BARRY FEINSTEIN
The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made ...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastatin...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Pakistan has nothing but to gain if it shows restraint now.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Not on my watch are we going to have what John Lindsay had when he was mayor.
BARRY FEINSTEIN
On my watch we are not going to have what we had when Mayor Lindsay was mayor.
BARRY FEINSTEIN
I don't think it's possible without the structure of the arbitration in place to get a deal done.
BARRY FEINSTEIN
The ATU deals are done.
BARRY FEINSTEIN
I don't believe it's possible to get a better deal.
BARRY FEINSTEIN
We want to get this thing resolved, over with.
BARRY FEINSTEIN
It was terrific. It was spiritual, it was the music, it was everything else that went with it. It wa...
BARRY FEINSTEIN
George Harrison, he was delightful. He was such a nice, easy human being very spiritual, very giving...
BARRY FEINSTEIN
It was wonderful. It was early in the season ... It was in the early 70s ... It wasn't about the mon...
BARRY FEINSTEIN
It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be exp...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
The key to sustained growth and rising standards of living will be the ability of developing countri...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use. You can see drones som...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never go...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
It was an inexcusable mistake, ... I regretted it probably some kind of nano second after it was out...
JOHN FEINSTEIN
Feinstein, Democrat of California, said on the CNN program ''Late Edition.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I hear the name Gershwin and I think of the most incredibly talented, prolific, extraordinary compos...
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
Senator, that is exactly one of the questions before the court, I can't answer that in the abstract.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
To see the horrific images of the dead lying in the street unattended, bodies floating aimlessly fac...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I think it's refreshing to have different points of view, and I agree with those who say that not ev...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Today's promise that this is the last time this will happen is the same as yesterday's promises that...
PAUL FEINSTEIN
Now is not the time to further tax cuts for millionaires which would cost $32 billion a year or more...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
It is hard to reconcile (massive corporate profits) when we all know the consumer is pushed to the b...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
If this article is accurate, it calls into question the integrity and credibility of our nation's co...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I am pleased to be part of the Congressional Dairy Farmers Caucus. As a senator from the nation's nu...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
As I've looked at Sandra Day O'Connor, she had an open-mindedness and an independence and called the...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
We will defeat this if this comes to the floor. I suspect they won't even bring this to the floor.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I asked a number of questions and she did answer them, ... But the key is to ask the questions in pu...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
In view of the 5,000 'air rage' incidents each year,
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
You speak about modesty and humility,
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
We will do everything in our power to stop it.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
The lines between a listening service and a distribution service have been blurred.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this ...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I'm trying to see your feelings as a man, ... I'm not asking you for a legal view.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I'm just trying to understand how you think,
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
What kind of justice would you be?
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I don't really know what I'm going to do with respect to voting for you or against you.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I don't really know what I'm going to do, ... What kind of a justice would you be, John Roberts?
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
For me, one of the most important issues that needs to be addressed by Judge Roberts is the constitu...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
It would be very difficult, and I said this to you privately and I said it publicly, for me to vote ...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
To the loved ones of those who have been killed or injured I extend my deepest sympathy, ... Their d...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
If you, Judge Roberts, subscribe to the Rehnquist court's restrictive interpretation of Congress's a...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
you were very full and forward-speaking. And then after lunch, it was as if you shut down and became...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
He has said two different things,
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
It's got to either be made legal or shut down,
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
isn't news for the inquiry.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I don't want to belabor it.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
This incident is a clear sign that industry's efforts to self-regulate when it comes to protecting c...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Our redwood trees are treasures that need to be protected and preserved. By adding more than 25,000 ...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I'm not sure what the views are. I had a private conversation and I did get a feeling ? a feeling. W...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone to the Supreme Court whom I knew would ...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Embryonic stem cell research offers enormous promise to conquering many devastating and catastrophic...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of lea...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
The distrust is enormous. I hope somebody out there is listening who controls these prices.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
The noises and smells have been continuous.
PAUL FEINSTEIN
The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Ev...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weap...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. S...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
I think the president is well advised to take heed of this,
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
If she was involved in conversations on torture or detainees, that kind of thing, we'd like to know ...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Despite repeated efforts by myself and staff, the White House did not address my request,
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
This proposal does not simply affect a small portion of wealthy homeowners; it would impact nearly t...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
For many months the US was standoffish from this reform process, which is odd, since reform of the U...
LEE FEINSTEIN
The White House is drawing attention to this election, betting that it will be successful and it can...
LEE FEINSTEIN
The U.S. strategy is to water down the document rather than to strengthen it.
LEE FEINSTEIN
A week's delay is no problem, but if this falls apart, it's a problem. This is the essence of the ex...
LEE FEINSTEIN
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit.
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
DIANE SAWYER
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
DIANE ARBUS
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
DIANE ACKERMAN
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a susta...
DIANE ARBUS
A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out th...
DIANE WARREN
I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.
DIANE KRUGER
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains u...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my so...
DIANE WARREN
I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it fe...
DIANE WARREN
I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
DIANE KRUGER
Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they te...
DIANE BLACK
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express em...
DIANE KRUGER
In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community ...
DIANE BLACK
I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so ma...
DIANE ACKERMAN
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark c...
DIANE ABBOTT
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that cele...
DIANE WAKOSKI
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we d...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergro...
DIANE ACKERMAN
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
DIANE RAVITCH
Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.
DIANE LANE
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind...
DIANE SETTERFIELD
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believ...
DIANE DUANE
With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No...
DIANE WOLKSTEIN
Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or to...
DIANE ACKERMAN
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
DIANE ARBUS
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
DIANE ARBUS
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and ha...
DIANE ARBUS
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about...
DIANE ARBUS
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lor...
DIANE ARBUS
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in bet...
DIANE ACKERMAN
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands th...
DIANE ARBUS
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
DIANE ACKERMAN
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to ha...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
DIANE ACKERMAN
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and t...
DIANE ARBUS
What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN
It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and ...
DIANE SAWYER
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
DIANE RAVITCH
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to h...
DIANE ACKERMAN
The devil is and always has been a gentleman.
DIANE LAVEY
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
DIANE SAWYER
Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, beca...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejo...
DIANE ACKERMAN
But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who do...
DIANE SETTERFIELD
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting it...
DIANE ACKERMAN
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanit...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
DIANE ACKERMAN
In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to ...
DIANE GARNICK
Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be i...
DIANE LADD
I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all...
DIANE PAULUS
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different pl...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experien...
DIANE KEATON
I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going ...
DIANE KRUGER
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like be...
DIANE KRUGER
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitut...
DIANE WOOD
Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
DIANE ACKERMAN
I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious bec...
DIANE KRUGER
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail u...
DIANE ACKERMAN
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutri...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...
DIANE ARBUS
All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting...
DIANE LANE
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, wor...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a tim...
DIANE KRUGER
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to acce...
DIANE SAWYER
I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I marr...
DIANE HENDRICKS
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scotti...
DIANE KRUGER
Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Hi...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gai...
DIANE KRUGER
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my voca...
DIANE KRUGER
It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i...
DIANE KRUGER
With just about every script, in almost every corner of the set, I was faced with the truth: This wa...
DIANE GUERRERO
Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get t...
DIANE DUANE
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of...
DIANE ABBOTT
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society...
DIANE PAULUS
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of s...
DIANE ARBUS
With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware ...
DIANE KRUGER
I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
DIANE LANE
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards t...
DIANE WAKOSKI
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with ...
DIANE ARBUS
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
DIANE ARBUS
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empath...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sport...
DIANE LANE
You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a...
DIANE ENGLISH