Boccardo Vespa Quotes & Sayings

Years ago I predicted that these suffragettes, tried out by victory, would turn out to be idiots. They are now hard at work proving it. Half of them devote themselves to advocating reforms, chiefly of a sexual character, so utterly preposterous that even male politicians and newspaper editors laugh at them; the other half succumb absurdly to the blandishments of the old-time male politicians, and so enroll themselves in the great political parties. A woman who joins one of these parties simply becomes an imitation man, which is to say, a donkey. — H.L. Mencken

When God sends no answer and "the cloud remain[s]," we must wait. Yet we can do so with the full assurance of God's provision of manna, water from the rock, shelter, and protection from our enemies. He never keeps us at our post without assuring us of His presence or sending us daily supplies. — Lettie B. Cowman

In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices. — Bob Ney

Women's progress has been a collective effort. — Gloria Steinem

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti — John Scalzi

Don't get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals. — Reed Hastings

The purpose of continuous repentance in the life of a quality man is not a return to the crisis of salvation but part of what the Bible calls sanctification. Repentance is the choice to embrace the Holy Spirit's daily work of convicting us about ongoing sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — James MacDonald

It's finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going. — Mona Rodriguez

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist. — Tom Paulin

I think serious readers of books are 5% of the population. If there are good TV shows or a World Cup or anything, that 5% will keep on reading books very seriously, enthusiastically. And if a society banned books, they would go into the forest and remember all the books. So I trust in their existence. I have confidence. — Haruki Murakami

We seem to do little more than lurch between wanting and not wanting. Thus, the question naturally arises: Is there more to life than this? Might it be possible to feel much better (in every sense of better) than one tends to feel? Is it possible to find lasting fulfillment despite the inevitability of change? — Sam Harris

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before. — Jacob Lew

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody. — Henry Ford

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child. — James Salter

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about. — Oscar Wilde