Gloria Reuben famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

  • To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

  • Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

  • As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

  • The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

  • [George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

  • Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

  • There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

  • Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

  • I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.