Nothing

We must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.
--Margaret Atwood

Needs

Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.
--Bertolt Brecht

Sacred

Words are sacred. I believe they are more sacred to children than they are to most of us.
--N. Scott Momaday

Givings

You know, we all make deals in terms of how we think about the process of our aging. It's a series of givings away, a making peace with givings away.
--David Milch

Jew

As a Jew in America, I was raised to believe two rather contradictory things: The United States is safe for us, and our world can descend into bigoted violence at any moment.
--Mark Joseph Stern

Words

Don't tell me words don't matter.
--Barack Obama

Horse Race

Rank them. Sort them. Do whatever your cyberalgorithms tell you will get the most eyeballs. The political reporting is so fixated on who's winning or falling behind that the horse race eclipses the actual economic and social conditions of the country.
--Robert Hennelly

Once

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
--Charles Lamb

Monitored

Sometimes I am surprised by how little I mind having my behavior monitored.
--Susan Orlean

Fading Away

To age is to feel as if pieces of you are falling or fading away, so that you somehow take up less space in the world. So that you're harder to see.
--Frank Bruni

Commit

The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating--in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.
--Anne Morriss

Rules

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
--Malcolm X

Enough

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
--Ted Chiang

Cherish

When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: "Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen." I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.
--E. B. White

Endure

To be breakable is not the same thing as to be perishable. Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years.
--G. K. Chesterton

Honor

Let's take a moment to honor the sacrifice of our brave school children who lay down their lives to protect our right to bear arms.
--Anonymous

Extensions

Algorithms and machine intelligence are only extensions of the men and women who create them.
--Louis Menand

What It Is

It's 2019. Can we all now please stop saying "climate change" and instead call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis and ecological emergency?
--Greta Thunberg

Wall

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
--Frank Zappa

Think

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
--Rod Serling

Disease

The appearance of anti-Semitism in a culture is the first symptom of a disease, the early warning sign of collective breakdown.
--Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (September 27 2016)

Marriage

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
--Pearl Buck