Auchincloss Foundation Quotes & Sayings

That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare. You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting. — Lionel Shriver

Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of a nation and of its citizens. In simpler words, socialism makes people worse. — Dennis Prager

I had a dream about you. You was a crocodile and i was always looking for you with fear. Your teeth were alabaster and your skin green as grass. Unfortunate you had already a girlfriend. And i hoped she finish like a handbag. I love you from my all reptile heart, which is poikilothermic. — Kattie Belgar

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away. — Willie Aames

The smell of hospitals is like small talk at a funeral - you know its function is to cover up something else. — Tim Kreider

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice. — Publilius Syrus

Tequila doesn't ask you to talk about your problems. Tequila and I have always gotten along. — Kimberly Lauren

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future. — Jerry Pournelle

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy — N. T. Wright

I always assume people are hiding parts of themselves from each other. People do that. — Kate Milford

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot. — Mark Haddon

Then again, how could he expect Bela to be interested in marriage, given the example he and Gauri had given? They were a family of solitaries. They had collided and dispersed. This was her legacy. If nothing else, she had inherited that impulse from them. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. — Auberon Herbert