Knee Jerk Liberalism Quotes & Sayings

However much they may smile at her, the old inhabitants would miss Tillie. Her stories give them something to talk about and to conjecture about, cut off as they are from the restless currents of the world. The many naked little sandbars which lie between Venice and the mainland, in the seemingly stagnant water of the lagoons, are made habitable and wholesome only because, every night, a foot and a half of tide creeps in from the sea and winds its fresh brine up through all that network of shining waterways. So, into all the little settlements of quiet people, tidings of what their boys and girls are doing in the world bring real refreshment; bring to the old, memories, and to the young, dreams. — Willa Cather

I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
To leave me but a little to myself. — William Shakespeare

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language. — Anton Chekhov

But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not a historic event of that kind. For many people it hasn't happened yet. Others - to recur to an earlier question - are still in the phase of intense shock. — George Pattison

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son. — Sandra Bullock

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards ... There's going to be a retard summit at the White House. — Rush Limbaugh

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change. — Larry Page

A week passes without contact, and then a month, and soon too much time has passed and calling her would just feel random and weird. So I don't. — Marie Lu

Why do you do that?

Do what?

Blow off compliments.

I don't.

You kind of do.

Sorry.

Don't apologize. Just learn to say thanks. — Marisa Reichardt

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance. — Pablo Picasso

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself. — Pat Conroy

The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy. — George Carlin

The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true. — Roger Von Oech

Take care of your relationships and the sales/money will take care of itself. — Robin Sharma

So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?" "Oh yes. Yes. — Dan Harris

There's the rub. The manifesto doesn't say; it leaves you with your mouth watering. But it was important; so important, it had to remain secret. — Umberto Eco