P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• I don't like workouts that make you bulky.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • You
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  • Workouts

• While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Culture
  • Church
  • Moving

• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• The patient decides when it's best to go.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Medical
  • Patient

• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Going
  • Go

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Question
  • Christian
  • Start

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Looking
  • Big
  • Market

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• Women are complicated. We all know that.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Women
  • Know
  • Complicated

• Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Family
  • Together
  • Changes

• I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • World
  • Success
  • Sports

• I was a dyslexic kid.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kid
  • Dyslexic

• I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Money
  • American

• President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

  

  David Letterman
  • Thinking
  • American
  • War

• The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

  

  James Lafferty
  • Alone
  • Picture

• The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • American
  • Slavery