Bracketed Exposure Quotes & Sayings

Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects? — Lech Kaczynski

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up. — Newt Gingrich

You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater, — Oscar De La Renta

Life turns on a dime. — Stephen King

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you. — Louisa May Alcott

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

How about you then, Brian, any action?'
'Not really.' This sounds a bit feeble, so I add, nonchalantly, There is this girl, Alice, and she's invited me to stay with her tomorrow, at her cottage, so . . .'
'Her cottage? says Spencer. 'What is she? A milkmaid?'
'You know, a house, in the country, her parents' . . .'
'So you're shagging her then?' asks Tone.
'It's platonic.'
'What's platonic mean then?' asks Spencer, even though he knows.
'It means she won't let him shag her,' says Tone. — David Nicholls

Is dangerous, I know, to take ride from strangers. With assault rifle in backpack, not so dangerous. — Neal Stephenson

One of the cardinal rules of lying is to never, if it can be prevented, involve someone else in your story, because you can't control them. Which is why I want to punch myself when the lie that falls from my lips is, To hang out with Wesley. — Victoria Schwab

The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history. — Robert Ferrigno

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals? — Amy Poehler

A dear friend of mine always brings a pineapple instead of flowers when he comes to a show. I love it. — Seth Numrich

You taught me about everything I had forgotten and things I'd never known. And the only way I can repay you is with my heart. You one hundred percent have my heart. It may not be worth much coming from a troubled man like me, but it's real and it's yours. Ti amo, mia leonessa. — Karina Halle

Often the more lavish the present, the greater the treachery the giver had probably been contemplating. — Alex Rutherford

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious. — Tom Cotton