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Quotes by American Authors
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
"Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest."
"As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point to set fire to the human spirit."
"If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed."
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
"Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda.The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis."
"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."
"Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes."
"The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda."
"What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour."
"Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you."
"Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway."
"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."
"There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it."
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
"This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America."
"We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution."
"Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall."
"I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans."
"I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it."
"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories."
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
"When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came."
"I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available."
"A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it."
"Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability."
"When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant..."
"We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?"
"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
"It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it."
"You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe."
"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."
"I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it."
"You can be surrounded by people, and still be lonely. You can be understood by people, and still feel unknown."
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