Kondracke Mort Quotes & Sayings

Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk and future lives, -
O love, there is no other life - but here. — Omar Khayyam

It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. — Terry Goodkind

Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Hell isn't having no choice.
It's having to make a choice between horrific things. — Don Winslow

Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases. — Mort Kondracke

How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'? — Mort Kondracke

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies. — Mort Kondracke

Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell. — Mort Kondracke

I am carving myself into a shape
that no one will recognize
because it is better being the marble
than the monster. — Ashe Vernon

At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards. — Mort Kondracke

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine. — Mort Kondracke

I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests. — Mort Kondracke

Life is not for show, but for real. — Mort Kondracke

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's. — Mort Kondracke

Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic. — Michael Keaton

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left. — Mort Kondracke

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell. — David Ogilvy

President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew. — Mort Kondracke

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too. — Sam Waterston

Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there. — Ruskin Bond

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing. — Tony Campolo

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb ... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost. — Jonathan Edwards

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke? — Melanie Griffith

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators. — Madeleine L'Engle

I'd say, Jesus wept cause he's trapped in there with missus, like us. — Sue Monk Kidd

The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research. — Mort Kondracke