P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• I want a place where I can have horses.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • Want
  • Place
  • I Can

• Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Help
  • Soul

• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Cool
  • Thought
  • Weird

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Life
  • School
  • Kid

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Truth

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Community
  • Rights
  • Supporting

• Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beauty
  • Talent
  • While

• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Important
  • Marriage
  • Expectation

• A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Want
  • Career

• They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Truth
  • Mean
  • Name

• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Chinese
  • Writer
  • Soviet

• I can be pretty harsh and judgmental. I'm a very harsh and judgmental person. I like morals, right and wrong. I like to see things in black-and-white when I can, so I will hold a lot of guys to an impossible standard.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Pretty
  • Black

• You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

  

  Kenny Wormald
  • Long
  • Dance

• We know it because, if we look below the surface, we sense it still spreading on every continent - for it is the most humane, the most advanced, and in the end the most unconquerable of all forms of human society.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Society

• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Band
  • New York

• I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Women
  • Free

• We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Choices