Naifeh And Associates Quotes & Sayings

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery. — Terry Pratchett

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in. — Craig Ferguson

If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy? — Richard Engel

Someone who accepts that in the world as currently divided war can become inevitable, and even just, might reply that the photographs supply no evidence, none at all, for renouncing war - except to those form whom the notions of valor and sacrifice have been emptied of meaning and credibility. The destructiveness of war - short of total destruction, which is not war but suicide - is not in itself an argument against waging war unless one thinks (as few people actually do think) that violence is always unjustifiable, that force is always and in all circumstances wrong - wrong because, as Simone Weil affirms in her sublime essay on war, "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force" (1940), violence turns anybody subjected to it into a thing. No, retort those who in a given situation see no alternative to armed struggle, violence can exalt someone subjected to it into a martyr or hero. — Susan Sontag

My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked. — Edith Konecky

the sentence im reading is terrific ... — J.D. Salinger

Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will. — Frederick Buechner

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm. — Colm Feore

I guess all that's left is to love the fire. — Norman Mailer

At breakfast, Babette read all our horoscopes aloud, using her storytelling voice. I tried not to listen when she got to mine, although I think I wanted to listen, I think I sought some clues. — Don DeLillo

In both her sacramental life and in her proclamation of the Word, the Church constitutes a distinctive subject whose memory preserves the seemingly past word and action of Jesus as a present reality. — Pope Benedict XVI

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly. — William Shakespeare

I am also at this point accustomed to reaffirm with emphasis my conviction that the sun is real, and also that it is hot--in fact as hot as Hell, and if the metaphysicians doubt it they should go there and see. — Winston S. Churchill