Fangeopolitics Quotes & Sayings

What would you do if you were King's Thief, Gen? Chew with your mouth open in the royal presence? Chat with the court ladies, dropping the h's at the beginning of your words and garbling the ends of most of them? Everything about you reveals your low birth. You'd never be comfortable at the court. — Megan Whalen Turner

Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war. — Sudhir Kakar

From Time for College - Mr. Chiardi & Other Stories

It was time for Junior to go to college. He'd sprouted pubic hair and was eyeing all the girls.
"I want to go to college," he said.
"Yes," I replied, "It's time."
His mother, my wife, was resigned to the fact that it was time for Junior to leave the nest. She sat on a stool at the granite kitchen counter, spiked coffee beside her, reading The New York Times. She looked almost real. — Rita Buckley Aka Charles Maxwell

Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking. — Rush Limbaugh

Bring mine unopened, with a napkin and an opener. (Blaine)
What? Afraid I'm going to spit in it, big boy? (Aimee) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas. — Peter Kreeft

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation. — Walter Gropius

Is birth always a fall? — Salman Rushdie