Bainter Quotes & Sayings

Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight. — David Hackett Fischer

My wife says I'm full of half-baked ideas, so from now on, I'll microwave myself for 45-seconds before speaking. — Stewart Lee Beck

Be humble and kind. Kindness has power in it. Look at Mother Teresa, the truest example of kindness. She was humble, kind, and fragile yet she was also a symbol of power. I have never heard of a woman more powerful than her. When we hear name, we must bow our heads with deep respect. — Debasish Mridha

Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of — Georgette Heyer

The medicalized version of mortality, though, insists that you get into a wheelchair when you are in a hospital. — Anonymous

Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both. — George Herbert

There are always those ifs when something goes wrong. We can't blame ourselves. It's just a bunch of little choices that don't mean anything till the shit hits the fan, and then you look back and see how you got there. And you find a whole string of ifs going back forever. — Richard Kelly

...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil. — E. M. Forster

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully. — Jason Schwartzman

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators. — Juan Cole

If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done. — Susan Eisenhower

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy. — Paulo Coelho