Eisenhower Social Security Quotes & Sayings

From my own childhood I remember only a handful of incidents, all of which I regarded as momentous, but which I now understand were a few events among many, which completely expunges their meaning, for how can I know that those particular episodes that lodged themselves in my mind were decisive, and not all the others of which I remember nothing? — Karl Ove Knausgard

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness. — Sam Kean

She didn't realize how beguiling she was in her innocent gestures. — Melanie Dickerson

You worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business. — Terry Pratchett

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff. — Robyn Hitchcock

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group. — Sandra Bernhard

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia. — Julian Bond

He seemed as oblivious to it as he probably was to the meaning of the word. — Melody Malone

When you're in love, you're capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries. — Paulo Coelho

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Like a bird on a wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free!! — Leonard Cohen

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy. — George F. Kennan

I was the one that almost got shot in the head by my boyfriend. What the hell was she crying about? It — Jessica N. Watkins

Many of the silliest ambiguities in the Internet memes come from newspaper headlines and magazine tag lines precisely because they have been stripped of all punctuation. Two of my favorites are MAN EATING PIRANHA MISTAKENLY SOLD AS PET FISH and RACHAEL RAY FINDS INSPIRATION IN COOKING HER FAMILY AND HER DOG. The first is missing the hyphen that bolts together the pieces of the compound word that was supposed to remind readers of the problem with piranhas, man-eating. The second is missing the commas that delimit the phrases making up the list of inspirations: cooking, her family, and her dog. — Steven Pinker

If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair. — Thomas Nagel

Why didn't you stay?' she has whispered against the unyielding stone. Why didn't you stay? She pressed the berry against her lips. Why didn't I ask you just one more time to stay. — Kamila Shamsie