P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

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• So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

  

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• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

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• Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

  

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• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• No one pays me to be nice.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Me
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• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
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• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

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• Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

  

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• Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

  

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  • Always
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  Harold Washington
  • Want
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  • Love
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  • Time
  • Heart

• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Long
  • May