Michael Grimm famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • History is the great propagator of doubt.

  • Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

  • Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

  • As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

  • Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

  • My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

  • The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.

  • Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

  • From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  • The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

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