Shirer Video Quotes & Sayings

I love to bring a bowl or basket filled with clementines that can be used as an easy centerpiece and enjoyed after the party. — Clinton Kelly

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope. — Steven Erikson

Besides, those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. As consolation can come to them only from the person who is the cause of their grief, and as their grief is an emanation from that person, it is there, in their grief itself, that they must in the end find a remedy: which it will disclose to them at a given moment, for as long as they turn it over in their minds this grief will continue to show them fresh aspects of the loved, the regretted creature, at one moment so intensely hateful that one has no longer the slightest desire to see her, since before finding enjoyment in her company one would have first to make her suffer, at another so pleasant that the pleasantness in which one has invested her one adds to her own stock of good qualities and finds in it a fresh reason for hope. — Marcel Proust

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. — Lao-Tzu

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them. — Plutarch

Sir Alan Redmayne believed in the rule of law. It was, after all, the basis of any democracy. Whenever asked, Sir Alan agreed with Churchill that, as a form of government, democracy had its disadvantages, but, on balance, it remained the best on offer. But given a free hand, he would have opted for a benevolent dictatorship. The problem was that dictators, by their very nature, were not benevolent. It simply didn't fit their job description. — Jeffrey Archer

I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut. — Margaret Maron

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. — Kiki Smith

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother. — Cotton Mather