Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. "

Related Quotes:

" Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things. "

" What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? "

" I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. "

" All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. "

" It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. "

" The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since. "

" To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. "

" Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. "

" I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind. "

" Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. "

" To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. "

" As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. "

" Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. "

" There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. "

" Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. "

" Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. "

" American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics. "

" Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?' "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "

" An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. "

" It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president. "

" I am only at home in the present. "

" Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. "

" The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. "

" What I like least about myself is my belligerence. "

" I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. "

" One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. "

" I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "