Quotes for All
She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama’s safety. Which meant she could do nothing but reflect on the complex plight of her mama’s more recent embroidery project. Thins, in itself, was a worse torture than any her captors could … Read more
The stress that we [with Abilities] always feel is trying to continue advancing with our music. That’s our plight, it’s ingrained in our personalities. We feel like we’re trying to race the world of music itself – just trying to create the best music, and as soon as we get done with one piece we’re … Read more
The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it’s just supplemental to the plight – it’s not a real thing, it’s just background to what we’re really trying to do. Eyedea
Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things to relieve women’s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking we should have the same rights as men. Evie Wyld
Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don’t need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food. Eva Burrows
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and the person who bought it was Alan Heinberg, one of the executive producers of the show and was a huge fan of my work and asked if I’d be interested … Read more
It took a child. It took a child with a blood transfusion not only to wake me up, but to wake America up, basically. I mean, I read about his plight in a doctor’s office in New York in a magazine. I was so outraged about it that I contacted the family. We became friends. … Read more
Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it’s easy to say, \”Well, they’re not as fully aware as I am, so why do I have to worry so much about their plight?\” But that’s a misunderstanding. They are brutally aware of their station. Eliza Griswold
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person…Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it’s frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, … Read more