“ Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it wil… G.K. Chesterton
“ I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad Imust be sure you don't overlook.-Char to Ella Gail Carson Levine
“ I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry. Iris Murdoch
“ He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brai… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic... Bob Woodward
“ Eventually the Korean War will be understood as one of the most destructive and one of the most important wars of the twentieth century. Bruce Cumings
“ ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?VLADIMIR: (impatiently). Yes, yes, we’re magicians. But let us persevere in what we have resolved, before we forget. Samuel Beckett
“ Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil… Howard Zinn
“ At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of hi… Stephen King
“ As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to them about… Deborah Bray Haddock
“ Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!Oh, sure, Leo said. Like…um, the Little Mermaid?Aphros fr… Rick Riordan
“ An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection. Baudelaire thought him a profound philosopher... Poe was much the greater charlatan of the two, as well as the greater g… Henry James
“ Remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Karl Marx
“ My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons. Louis XIV
“ Metal isn't necessarily aggressive. There's metal that's contemplative, there's metal that's sad, and there's metal that's exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express. John Darnielle
“ AIDS had won gays sympathy they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s. Edmund White
“ There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills. Elizabeth Warren
