quotes about Accolades

“My parents really encouraged me.”

“Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.”

“Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.”

“Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.”

“They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.”

“It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.”

“Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.”

“I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.”

“There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.”

“All we ask is to be let alone.”

Source : 1861 Inaugural address, 18 Feb.