"I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues."

-- Michele Bachmann

#Issues Quotes #Light Quotes #Sides Quotes

“I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.”
“I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police and criminals, the criminal justice system,”
“I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.37, Kent State University Press
“Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.”
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”

Source : Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.115, VM eBooks
“I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.”

Source : "The artist as leader" by Mark Braund, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.
“Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.”
“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within themâ€”if we want to see itâ€”there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentationâ€¦and there is a companyâ€™s profit curve.”

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