"Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Events Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Hunters Quotes

“It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for”
“Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.”
“You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?”
“The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.”
“How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?”
“Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.”

Source : Michael Lerner (1996). “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism”, Perseus Books
“He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.”
“A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.”

Source : "A Ford, not a Lincoln". Book by Richard Reeves, 1975.

You may also like:

Christopher Guest
Baron Haden-Guest
Frederic Bastiat
Economist
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
Henry Beard
Author
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist
Jann Wenner
Publisher
Thomas Gray
Poet
Tony Hendra
Writer
William O. Douglas
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States