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Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.
Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices.
If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.
The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions.
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.
It sure looks like [Vladimir] Putin did this [hack DNS site]. And we all need to take this seriously.
The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.
My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.
As a writer, you always try to imagine, 'What if I were in a situation like this? How would I react?'
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
For $60, I once bought a neck massage at a 'massage parlor' that advertised in 'The Washington Post.'
I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.
A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.
Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.
If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.
On the Internet, you can form a community without having to go through the trouble of meeting anyone.
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves