Frohnmayer Award Quotes & Sayings

Paranoia
because why should the conspiracy theorists get to have all the fun? — Jim Butcher

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother. — Phyllis Schlafly

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis
an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. — D. W Brogan

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong. — Robert Kagan

I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. — Haruki Murakami

The dead have come to take the living. The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays the hurdy-gurdy. — Don DeLillo

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile. — Walt Disney

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet. — Ellen Barkin

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time. — Henry James

I want my world to be fun. — Justin Bieber

You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with. — Lloyd Banks

A wise man knows how little he knows and upon his death he drinks wisdom from an empty cup. — John Tarttelin

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics. — George Nethercutt