Thiryto Quotes & Sayings

The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police ... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! — George Orwell

[S]ongs must be measured by their utility. Any jaunty little tune that can get you from one point to another as you drive, or get you through the dishes, or that can illuminate or dignify your courting, I always appreciate.
-interview, 1995 — Leonard Cohen

Empty political space will be filled by extremists unless the United States and its allies build strong local forces that can suppress terrorist groups and warlords both. When the U.S. creates such local forces, it must be persistent. If it withdraws from these efforts, as America did in Iraq in 2011, it invites mayhem. — David Ignatius

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. — Minnie Pearl

In America, there's no idea so patently absurd that it can't catch on. — Bill Maher

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. — Adolf Hitler

Whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves. — Hannah Arendt

You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything. — Tamora Pierce

My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober. — G.K. Chesterton

I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and always have blotting papers. — Khloe Kardashian

His name was spicy and elastic, like cinnamon gum. — R. J. Anderson

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died. — Cynthia Leitich Smith