J. W. N. Sullivan Quotes

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

My father has been a rock for me every since.

I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.

We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?

If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.

Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.

I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.

Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.