Damian Thompson Quotes

Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?

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• I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Myself
  • Parent
  • Corruption

• The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Decision
  • Fight
  • Same

• Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • True
  • Body
  • Queen

• If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Important
  • Friend
  • Day

• Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Create
  • Fiction
  • Empathy

• The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • War
  • Years
  • Destiny

• Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I would love to play 'Wonder Woman'; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Love
  • Play
  • Woman

• The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Life
  • Success
  • Single

• I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Winning
  • Said
  • Would Be

• The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Christian
  • Devil

• I've said to [Donald Trump], and I think others have said to him that the day that he is the President of the United States, there are world capitals and financial markets and people all around the world who take really seriously what he says, and in a way that's just not true before you're actually sworn in as president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

  

  Eleanor Porter
  • Good
  • Brave
  • Glad

• They come to the arena to watch gladiators. Do they want to see a bunch of guys choking up on the bat against pitchers throwing 82 miles an hour or do they want to see the ball go 500 feet? They want to see warriors.

  

  Ken Caminiti
  • Up
  • Arena
  • Warriors

• You know what to expect from him every week. You don't get a different quarterback. You see some quarterbacks go out there and play great, and then the next week they go out there and they don't play half as good as the last week. So I like that.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Play
  • Expect
  • Him

• You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Stress
  • Anxiety
  • Deal

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country

• I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.

  

  Brian Sewell
  • Art

• Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?

  

  Damian Thompson
  • Expect
  • Possibly
  • Encouraged