Imperialistic Tendencies Quotes & Sayings

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.
I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give. — Joan Didion

I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual. — Kate Walsh

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy. — William Alcott

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. — Alice Walker

Yet I have often noticed since how much less stir nearly everyone's death makes than you might expect. Men better loved and more worth loving than my father go down making only a small eddy. — C.S. Lewis

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high. — Aristophanes

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today. — Max Weber