#state

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#belong #contradictions #each #european #european union

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#against #always #basic #campaigns #concrete

It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions. ↗

— Campbell Newman

#around #conditions #days #distributed #example

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#gigantic #having #having children #i #life

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles. ↗

— Don Nickles

#governments #happen #i #local #local governments

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#colleagues #countries #even #friends #here

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ↗

— Anais Nin

#forever #lives #other #seek #some

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#across #difficult #expensive #harder #having

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#center #largest #shopping #states #still