Misconstrues Defined Quotes & Sayings

The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare ... " It doesn't say "guarantee the general welfare." And it certainly doesn't say "give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV". — P. J. O'Rourke

We're the world's leading producer of serial killers. It's a sign of sickness, is what it is. We're sick and weak and these killers are like a cancer inside us: the faster we grow, the quicker they multiply. — John Connolly

The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse, and with the years of travel. — Rebecca Solnit

He felt his mother hadn't prepared him for what it felt like, falling alone. Which — Katherine Boo

It would be stupid to rush things."
"Rush? This thing between us started three months ago."
"Yeah, in your head. — Suzanne Wright

Significant thins shouldn't begin or end at Applebee's. — Matthew Norman

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever. — E.B. White

Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material. — Pat Conroy