Larisa Alexandrovna famous quotes

If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.
-- Larisa Alexandrovna

#Men #Would Be #Pits

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.
-- Larisa Alexandrovna

#Entertaining #Balanced #Bites

Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?
-- Larisa Alexandrovna

#Believe #Aberration #Way

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.
-- Larisa Alexandrovna

#Thinking #Yellow #Tvs

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.
-- Larisa Alexandrovna

#Democracy #Example #Body

Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.
-- Larisa Alexandrovna

#Country #Home #Self

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

No one man is superior to the game.

Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.

The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.