"The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest."

-- Clifton Fadiman

#Sarcastic Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Mind Quotes

“You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.”

Source : "Patrick Warburton on 'Hoodwinked'". Interview with Michael J. Lee, movies.radiofree.com. December 12, 2005.
“I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me”
“You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.”
“It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.”

Source : Charles Hodge (1871). “Systematic Theology”, p.353
“You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.”

Source : Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.226, Penguin
“Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.”
“If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come”

Source : Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
“Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable of some horrendous blunders when he was president. He once said that the Vichy legislation against Jews affected only foreign Jews, which was, of course, absolutely wrong. So he obviously wasn't too well-informed about what is going on in the Vichy government.”

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