Lionel Trilling Quotes
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.Lionel Trilling
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans -
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Calamity Jane -
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
You can't just let nature run wild.
Walt Disney -
The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
Laura Leighton
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken -
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
Lamar Alexander -
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
Carly Fiorina -
Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
Kangana Ranaut -
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
Gary Carr -
Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
Kaitlin Olson
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
W. C. Fields -
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
Jackie Chan -
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
V. S. Naipaul -
Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
Gail Collins -
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
Nate Parker
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Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
Jeannette Rankin -
The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
Bob Graham -
When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
Carine Roitfeld -
There are many difficulties impeding the rapid spread of reasonableness. One of the main difficulties is that it always takes two to make a discussion reasonable. Each of the parties must be ready to learn from the other. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
Karl Popper -
Play well with others.
Adena Friedman -
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Lionel Trilling