Kloppenberg Quotes & Sayings

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking. — John Oliver

Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it. — Robert Ludlum

Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out. — Scott Adams

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves. — Alain De Botton

As a kid I said 'Bob Costas went to Syracuse, I'm going to Syracuse' — Ian Eagle

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. — Juvenal

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life. — Theodore W. Parker

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. — Tom Lehrer

Farmer barn dances, although the — Lois McMaster Bujold

But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt as a snake must feel who has sloughed off its winter skin, and cannot understand the brightness and sensitiveness of its new one. — Thomas Hardy

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically
any way you want to look at it
everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case. — Michael Connelly

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. — George Gissing

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future. — Henry Taube

We go in withering July
To ply the hard incessant hoe;
Panting beneath the brazen sky
We sweat and grumble, but we go. — Ruth Pitter

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. — Napoleon Bonaparte