"I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Kings Quotes #Queens Quotes #Real Quotes

“Imagination is the other end of Reality.”

Source : FaceBook post by K.Hari Kumar from Dec 29, 2013
“You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.”
“Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.”
“A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever”
“Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.”
“It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.”
“Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet”
“What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.”

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