"Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire."

-- Jonathan Stroud

#Opportunity Quotes #Wife Quotes #Skirts Quotes

“Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it.”
“If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.”
“It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.”
“Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and approaching that kind of question in an open-minded and open-hearted way, receptive to a broad range of considerations and interests of other people and other things.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.”
“Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.”

Source : Speech At 2012 Republican Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.
“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).”
“There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.”

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