Fandangles Quotes & Sayings

At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector. — Antony Beevor

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. — Virgil

Dude's got a look on his face like somebody just shoved a sweet-tart up his ass. — John Knudsvig

My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time. — Tim Cahill

I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation. — Hugh Dalton

Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul. — Yehudi Menuhin

One hundred and one. No person above seventeen years of age shall have any benefit or protection of the law, or be capable of any place of profit or honor, who is not a member of some church or profession, having his name recorded in some one, and but one religious record at once. — John Locke

I'm allowed to have my opinions as an American, but it seems the Left becomes very intolerant when you have an opinion other than what they state. — Joe Wurzelbacher

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion. Very often, the fear of total permanent war paralyzes the kind of morally oriented politics, which might engage our interests and our passions. We sense the cultural mediocrity around us-and in us-and we know that ours is a time when, within and between all the nations of the world, the levels of public sensibilities have sunk below sight; atrocity on a mass scale has become impersonal and official; moral indignation as a public fact has become extinct or made trivial. — C. Wright Mills