"Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Dog Quotes #Freedom Quotes #People Quotes

“Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.”

Source : "Jesus' Son". www.imdb.com. 1999.
“I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.”
“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”
“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
“We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.”
“Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say â€¦ that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.”
“Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.”

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