W.D. Frank Quotes

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

I want to go on living after my death!

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.

I don't think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.

Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.