D. O. Flynn Quotes
By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.
I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.
This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.
Trump realized that you had to drive a stake through the heart of this establishment and that millions of Americans do not feel represented by this sort of clique in Washington.
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.
But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.
You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.
Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.
Islam is an ideology and there's a religious component to it that's radicalized and in some cases it masks itself behind that religion, especially in America, because of freedom of religion.
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.
Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.
I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.
...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)
Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.
One of the things I learned was that Putin has no respect for the United States leadership. Not for the United States, but the leadership.
One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world.
Donald Trump is a great listener, and he's a good challenger. He doesn't come across as a person who thinks he knows it all. In fact, he once told me he has had lot of things to learn.
Remember the box fight: You start as a southpaw, you go back to fighting as a right-handed fighter.
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
