C. J. Dennis Quotes
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat
That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.
To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.
A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.
Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.
Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.
See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.
There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.
Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.
Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.