Maureen Dowd Quotes

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

Maureen Dowd

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• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Always
  • Write
  • Some

• When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Know
  • Brain
  • Ignore

• Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Woman
  • Military
  • Affair

• If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Should
  • Driving
  • Going

• I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Good
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch

• Facebook is my life.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Facebook

• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Good
  • Never

• On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Friday
  • June

• What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• Next he will be foxtrotting down to the Tory party's fundraising ball, auctioning City internships for the children of the highest bidder. Is that not the Government's idea of social mobility?

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Children
  • City
  • Party

• Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Up
  • Truth

• The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Technology

• Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Women
  • Children
  • Society

• I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.

  

  Kristin Kreuk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Travel

• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Light

• I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Up
  • Growing

• In 90 minutes, anything can happen.

  

  Antoine Griezmann

• Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the volatility of inflation and employment. As a result, I believe a macro-prudential approach to supervision and regulation needs to play the primary role.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Believe
  • Financial

• Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

  

  David Harvey

• I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him, 'Keep the spotlight of your Spirit on me so there would be nothing impure or unholy in my life.' That's been my prayer for 50 years.

  

  Bill Bright
  • God
  • Desire
  • Prayer

• Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

  

  Maureen Dowd