"The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration."

-- Sally Quinn

#Running Quotes #People Quotes #Black Quotes

“I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.”
“Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.”
“Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.”
“In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.”
“I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.”
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.77, Penguin
“The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.”
“Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.”

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