P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Up
  • Family
  • Parents

• A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Film
  • Lose
  • Los Angeles

• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Women
  • City
  • Hair

• Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Person
  • Battle

• I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Morning

• I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Employment

• I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Alone

• I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Drama
  • Laugh

• When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Like
  • First

• I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Amazing
  • Always
  • Husband

• I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Man
  • Playing
  • Intention

• I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Women
  • Why
  • Business

• You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Support
  • Marriage
  • Grow

• Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Benefits
  • Globalization

• There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Book
  • Religion
  • Intelligent

• I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Politics
  • Join

• Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate - it is the sensation of its own realization. a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Art
  • Experience
  • History

• Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Time

• As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • May
  • Pride

• If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

  

  Mark Ruffalo

• We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

  

  Aristotle
  • Power
  • Masters
  • Habits

• I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Great
  • Think
  • Novel

• Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke