P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one - not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.

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• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Brother
  • Doctor
  • Engineer

• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Thought

• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Live
  • Can
  • Scenes

• I don't think about my fame very much.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Think
  • Fame
  • Very

• One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Vision
  • Capital
  • Scarce

• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Ever

• I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Universe
  • Speak
  • Achieve

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

  

  Katey Sagal
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  • Work
  • Why

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Earth

• If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Truth

• I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.

  

  Elaine Stritch
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  • World
  • Live

• I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and Amy don't really do endings. You cannot escape from us. Once we're friends with you, that's it.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • May
  • Band

• I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one - not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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