Megynkelly Todayshow Quotes & Sayings

The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; ... the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness. — Frank Chodorov

To distract myself, I thought about all the cusswords I knew and arranged them in alphabetical order. — Sue Grafton

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for. — Neil MacGregor

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars. — Jennifer Echols

Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine,
Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine.
Better be born with taste to little rent
Than the dull monarch of a continent;
Without this bounty which the gods bestow,
Can Fortune make one favorite happy?
No. — John Armstrong

President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him. — Helmut Schmidt

I will do anything for you, just don't go anywhere. Just don't leave. Stand there and smile at me, and I'll do anything you want. — Lilith Saintcrow

All these private, parallel dimensions, underlying such an innocuous little estate; all these self-contained worlds layered onto the same space. — Tana French

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God. — George Whitefield

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions. — Charles Stross

Life is short, and brutal, and painful, and it takes loved ones away from us as quickly as it brings them into our lives, but it's also beautiful. — Claire Contreras

Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself. — Herbert Benson

I want to be famous everywhere. — Luciano Pavarotti

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder