P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Something
  • Away
  • Arts

• There is a god within us.

  

  Ovid
  • God
  • U.S.
  • Within

• The international monetary system is the glue that binds national economies together.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Together

• These are the visionary, mystical moments, when a man 'completes his partial mind'. His everyday conscious self is only a small part of the mind, like the final crescent of the moon. In moments of crisis, the full moon suddenly appears.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Mind
  • Small
  • Moments

• There is no revolution like the Communist revolution. You simply burn all the books, kill all of the thinking people and use the poor proletariat to create a very simple benchmark to gauge social change.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Simple

• I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

  

  Bill Nighy

• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • America

• The majors are very important, and I would love to win one or many. I'll continue to compete in them hard and win if I can. There's not much more I can say. I'd love to be part of the club of people who've won majors.

  

  Luke Donald
  • People
  • Important

• Style has become a crucial differentiating factor for most actors in the industry. I generally choose my look based on the character I essay. I research a lot on the Internet and pick something that would suit my face.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Character
  • Style

• Basically, I always wanted to be an author but went through all these other jobs while getting up the nerve to finally go for it with my writing! Thank goodness it worked; who knows what I might have done next?

  

  Claudia Gray
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

  

  Colleen Hanabusa
  • Political
  • Understanding

• My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Husband
  • Romantic

• 'Fernwood 2-Night' didn't help me too much when it was first on.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Help
  • Night

• I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• Lyme disease has become a fast epidemic worldwide. I am determined to help find a cure and figure out a way to share knowledge with the millions of people struggling with this debilitating disease.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• Now this nation that I loveHas fallen under attackA mighty sucker punch came flying inFrom somewhere in the backSoon as we could see clearlyThrough our big black eyeMan, we lit up your worldLike the 4th of July.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Black
  • Flying

• Even though I knew I was inside the space shuttle getting ready to go fly, something about it wasn't completely real up until we got the call at about one minute to go, to close and lock our visors and start our oxygen flow. People often ask me, "What did it feel like right at the moment of launch?" And they're surprised when I tell them actually what I felt was relief. It wasn't like being anxious or scared or anything. It was relief because this is something I had wanted to do my whole life and now that the boosters had lit, we were on our way to go do it and nothing was going to stop us.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Keep your freedom, keep your immortality, but somewhere along the line I hope you figure out what you're living forever for. What noble purpose you mean to achieve. Because you're no good to anyone here, not even yourselves.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Political

• I am down mentally. I can't understand how it happened and who is to blame? I don't know why the ground was rolled before the final which may have resulted in losing key players like Hemanta and Zahid due to the hardness of the pitch.

  

  Yeasin Khan
  • Why
  • May
  • Player

• I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Lit