Quotes 5481 till 5500 of 7322.
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The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made scarce.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
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The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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The universe is not friendly to despots, and they all perish sooner of later.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
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The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845) -
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
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