"You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Writing Quotes #Blow Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.”
“The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.”

Source : "John Sununu: ‘I Wish This President Would Learn How To Be An American’" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.
“I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and the Qurâ€™an will become books supporting one another being read everywhere, and respected by every nation â€¦ [I am] looking forward to seeing Muslims read the Torah and the Bible.”
“Look at her -- I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way -- what bliss.”
“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one”

Source : Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press
“Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.”
“People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.”
“We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party, understands this is our new demographic in America as a result of the election. I think they understand if they want to be a national party, they're going to have to deal with this issue. For Latinos and other immigrants, this is the civil rights issue of our time.”

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