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Some Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
- Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under…
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to…
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you…
- There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.
- I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
- I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to…
- But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear…
- There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain…
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,…
- Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones;…
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.
- I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how…
- The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own,…
- All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their…
- The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the…
- You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like…
- Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land,…
- Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor,…
- Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
- I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong