Boz Scaggs Quotes
There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
Quotes to Explore
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.
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My life really began when I married my husband.
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As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.
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In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
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Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.
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The socialism of continental Europe, taking it by and large, is actively hostile, not only to bad forms of organized religion, but to religion itself.
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p. v; Preface first edition
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A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
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I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind. It's in the tradition of 'Urinetown,' kind of - but that's a pretty small tradition. It's possible that it can fail.
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I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.
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Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.
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There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
