P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

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• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • You
  • Routine

• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Money
  • Today
  • Want

• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Afraid

• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • She
  • Book
  • Remember

• I was a little too young to be a hippie.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Young
  • Little
  • Hippie

• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Body
  • Force

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happy
  • Equality
  • Be Happy

• From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • You
  • View
  • Point Of View

• Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Teach
  • Walk

• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Risk

• Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Perfect
  • Consciousness

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Way
  • Afghanistan
  • Camel

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.

  

  T. H. White
  • Time
  • God
  • Mind

• You have to think like a businessman or a businesswoman, and I can't wait to continue to grow, as an actress, but to also continue to grow as a brand and show people that I have so much more to offer.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Waiting
  • Actresses
  • Brands

• As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • Life
  • God
  • Kids

• There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

  

  Preston Manning
  • School
  • American

• Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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