Bret Stephens Quotes

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • End
  • Will

• Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • May
  • Age

• Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • More
  • Nobody
  • Alumni

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • History
  • Movie
  • Loved

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Enough
  • Call
  • Guess

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Live
  • Training

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Never
  • Roots

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Children
  • Community
  • Wonder

• I, like every other stupid American, assumed the kangaroos would meet us at the airport and they would want to hug us as much as we wanted to hug them. … In Sydney's zoo I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Why
  • American
  • High

• More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Important
  • Love
  • Peace

• I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Why

• I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• A project like Pangea, which enables us to enter in to the situations of others, imaginatively, is fulfilling what the religions call the Golden Rule... going into one's own experience, and going into other's experience, and seeing the world from another perspective - that's what we desperately need in our dangerously polarized world.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Experience
  • Perspective

• Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • American