Carroll Quigley Quotes

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

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• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

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• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

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• I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

  

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• Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

  

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• My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

  

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• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

  

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• Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

  

  Ouida
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• We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.

  

  Tanith Lee

• But then again of course I know perfectly well that He can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
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• It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
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• The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

  

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• Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

  

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• Millennials don't go to rallies.

  

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• I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.

  

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• I've never had a problem with age; my feelings and emotions are still like those of a young woman. Thank God, I can still be surprised and excited, and I can still dream. I think that's something no one should stop doing, because it's what keeps you young!

  

  Maria Conchita Alonso
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• What do hookers do on their nights off, type?

  

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• But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• I don’t think that I am the most informed or that I’ve earned my place to be a political spokes-voice. So I try to keep that type of politic out of my songwriting and I do it more in my personal life. I do a lot of fundraising, I do a lot of awareness raising through charity fundraising and lots of stuff that I do via eBay or my website, and I try to donate to causes that are fighting Trump’s racist system or the awful effects that Brexit is going to have.

  

  Bright Light Bright Light
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• There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Light
  • Revolution
  • Shining