Nancy Regan > Nancy's Quotes

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“In many states, voters didn’t get to choose their own members of Congress. Members of Congress got to choose their own voters.”
― Ian Millhiser, Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“That took balls."

"Please," I said with a snort, "that took ovaries. Of which I have two.”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
― Maya Angelou

“Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“There has been a tendency to personify racism in the figure of a working-class white redneck who dislikes Black people and spouts hateful things, as opposed to a middle-or upper-class white person who might decry such hatefulness but still embraces racially unjust policies.”
― Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

“As women gain rights, families flourish, and so do societies. That connection is built on a simple truth: Whenever you include a group that's been excluded, you benefit everyone. And when you're working globally to include women and girls, who are half of every population, you're working to benefit all members of every community. Gender equity lifts everyone. Women's rights and society's health and wealth rise together.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“[W]e would never think it was humane to pay someone to rape people convicted of rape, or assault and abuse someone guilty of assault or abuse. Yet we were comfortable killing people who kill in part because we think we can do it in a manner that doesn’t implicate our own humanity the way that raping or abusing someone would. I couldn’t stop thinking that we don’t spend much time contemplating the details of what killing someone actually involves.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“He was either stout or portly, wealthy enough that a vocabulary had been devised to conceal his girth.”
― Renee Patrick, Design for Dying

“The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.”
― Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“Hay una diferencia entre participar e implicarse. En un plato de huevos fritos con chorizo, la gallina participa. El cerdo se implica.”
― Juan Gomez-Jurado, La leyenda del ladrón

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.”
― Philip Roth, The Human Stain

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey

“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“while America, for its part, proved singularly unreceptive to the socialist-realist principle that undergirds them all: the principle that art can, or even must, have a message; and that such art-with-a-message, which will always be dismissed as propaganda, is in fact the only available corrective to the real and actual propaganda of entrenched official power.”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns

“sort. The authority of sober reason is being undermined. The paltry varnish of logic is being scraped away. An epoch is at hand during which the large, partially hyperdeveloped animal, known as man, will revert to his fundamentals. Aren’t you thrilled to be living during these times?” Quietly, he turned his”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns

“What history had taught him was Amazement. A tremendous amazement that each time those in jeopardy had been so slow in thinking about their safety.”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns

“There is nothing the rabble fears more than intelligence. If they understood what is truly terrifying, they would fear ignorance.”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns

“The real problem of the masses was not the barbarism of the Nationalists but how to get along without the two extra groschen that the government had deducted from their income.”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns

“This logical belief that the lie is the first principle of politics is certainly enormously interesting.”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns

“There was no question but that the Nationalists had carried out their program point by point, that program at whose primitive barbarism people had so often smiled.”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns

“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone