Komisar And Spindler Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope. — Walter Karp

Fresh tadpoles coming out in the spring should be washed clean in cold well-water, and swallowed whole three or four days after menstruation. If a woman swallows fourteen live tadpoles on the first day and ten more on the following day, she will not conceive for five years. If contraception in still required after that, she can repeat the formula twice and be for ever sterile... This formula is good in that it is effective, safe and not expensive. The defect is that it can be used only in the spring. — Pearl S. Buck

These Aussie girls are free to set their own courses in the world, to meander and experiment. Their travels are not bumps along the road - they are life itself. See the world and then come home and decide who you want to be in it, not the other way around, as seems the general trajectory in the U.S. — Rachel Friedman

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation. — Mark Latham

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way. — Terry Southern

But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion ... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will. — William Shakespeare

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. — Aime Cesaire

Do not wait to know you are drying before you start living. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I need you to use Radar's login to the student directory and look up an address. Chuck Parson."
"No."
"Please," I said.
"No."
"You'll be glad you did this, Ben. I promise."
"Yeah yeah. I just did it. I was doing it while saying no
can't help but help. Four-two-two Amherst. Hey, why do you want Chuck parson's address at four-twelve in the morning? — John Green

My companions said to me, if I would visit the grave of my friend, I might somewhat alleviate my worries. I answered "could she be buried elsewhere than in my heart? — William Jones

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond. — Masaharu Anesaki