William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.William Lewis Safir
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
Yossi Sarid -
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
Earl Browder -
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
Victoria Moran -
The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
Harrison Ford -
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson -
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
Paloma Elsesser -
The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
Narendra Modi -
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
Aaron Stanford -
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos Castaneda -
Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
Talcott Parsons -
Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King -
It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
Kate Williams -
I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
Laura Bell Bundy -
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
T. S. Eliot -
We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
Bebe Rexha -
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
Federico Fellini
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I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next.
Corrie Ten Boom -
If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises' when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.
Blake Crouch -
People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control.
Beth Revis -
Capitalism works not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the consumer.
Dinesh D'Souza -
The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.
William Lewis Safir