"Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government."

-- Irving Kristol

#Strong Quotes #Past Quotes #Government Quotes

“I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance of him...he smelled better than any human being I'd ever met. "Okay" I said unsteadily, "forget what I said about not exchanging names. Who are you?" "For you, honey...I'm trouble." -Haven & Hardy”
“Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.”
“I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.”
“The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”
“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...”
“As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.”
“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”
“I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."”

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