John McLaughlin Quotes
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
Patrick Murphy -
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons -
Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
Ralph Baer -
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
Jack Kevorkian -
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong -
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
Ed Koch -
It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
K. Eric Drexler -
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
Barbara Kruger -
I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
Natalie Imbruglia -
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
Jackie Collins
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
Saint Ignatius -
I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
P. C. Cast -
Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
E. W. Howe -
The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
Quentin Crisp -
Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
Warren Farrell -
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
Cormac McCarthy
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I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in Hollywood. It's just kind of an embarrassing endeavor.
Adam Scott -
Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.
Maury Yeston -
I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.
Courteney Cox -
I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.
Kellie Martin -
The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
It's terrible when I go somewhere, and I'm not recognized.
John McLaughlin