Funny Grandmother Birthday Quotes & Sayings

How could this have happened when everything was normal? — Joan Didion

The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing some people to support others. The Democrats favor the indefinite expansion of the welfare state, perpetually increasing the ratio of force to freedom in society. — Joseph Sobran

I realized that I couldn't expect them to think better of me that I thought of myself. So if I believed I was too young or stupid or inexperienced to be a captain, then that's all I would ever be. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects. — Noam Chomsky

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up. — Harrison Ford

Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write." (p.136) — Mark David Gerson

I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office. — Matt Gonzalez

General competence is on the fucking decline. — Bret Easton Ellis

If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses, — Craig Johnson

One man can make another's life so much better. — Janet Morris

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. — Tod Machover

I want my world to be fun. — Justin Bieber

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton