"American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us."

-- Charley Reese

#Thinking Quotes #Doors Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.”
“If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.”
“If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!”

Source : "Mankind's first giant leap". www.economist.com. August 3, 2011.
“Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
“I support the Surfrider Foundation, which is focused on protecting the oceans and beaches. I also recycle and use mass transit, ride my bike as often as I can, or I walk, which is one of the best parts about living in New York City.”
“Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?”
“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.13, A&C Black
“Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.”

You may also like:

Ernest Hemingway
Author
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
George Carlin
Comedian
Israel Shamir
Writer
James Bovard
Author
Joseph Sobran
Journalist
Justin Raimondo
Author
Mark Twain
Author
Ray Bradbury
Writer