P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

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• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Great
  • Songs

• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • Future
  • Hunting
  • Engage

• You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Up
  • Music
  • City

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Country
  • Past
  • Poverty

• One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Money
  • Blame

• People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Always
  • Look

• Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friend
  • Look
  • Dating

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Goals
  • Strength

• The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Country
  • Trying

• Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Marriage
  • Equal

• In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• We know that the crime committed by people with guns by criminals, they get the guns by flouting the law to begin with. They don't go to gun shows.

  

  John Fleming
  • People
  • Law
  • Gun

• Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Mother
  • Law

• The cost of money rises dramatically if you can't afford to keep it in a bank.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Money

• When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

  

  Claire Bloom
  • Star

• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
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  • Gravity