He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

People can tell what's in beer, eh? Like my brother can tell the difference between beers by what his burps taste like.

Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too. "It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.