Donaghue Ford Quotes & Sayings

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. — Eric Hoffer

Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise
the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us all and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way. and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer. — Milan Kundera

She turned out to be one of those irritating people who get up to leave and then stand in the doorway chattering away. — M.C. Beaton

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one. — Khaled Hosseini

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much — Ernest Hollings

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person. — Michelle Williams

You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire. — Dwight Howard

In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a "free" economy. — Gunnar Myrdal

Salon prepared for you and Miss Thorn to enjoy tea. — Rose Gordon

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures. — Henri Poincare

No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin — Flora Thompson