"For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview."

-- Mark Steyn

#Growing Up Quotes #Real Quotes #Simple Quotes

“The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests,”

Source : Leon Panetta, Jim Newton (2014). “Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace”, p.214, Penguin
“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”
“The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness is as legitimate a part of experience as happiness and necessary in order to render happiness appreciable, or that it is more advantageous to be young than to be old: those still took me a long time to pry loose for reexamination.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.18, Da Capo Press
“God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.”
“I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.”
“Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).”
“Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.”
“For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time.”

You may also like:

Ann Coulter
Commentator
Charles Krauthammer
Columnist
Jonah Goldberg
Author
Mark Levin
Lawyer
Michael E. Mann
Author
Michelle Malkin
Blogger
Rush Limbaugh
Talk show host
Thomas Sowell
Economist
Victor Davis Hanson
Historian