Tony Blinken Quotes & Sayings

Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?
[Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south] — Theodore Roosevelt

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts. — Hermann Hesse

I tell you this: it is the most despicable thing of all to drag animals into a war. — Erich Maria Remarque

I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in. — Nick Park

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain. — Thomas More

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core. — Stephen Lewis

If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth. — Manny Montana

Ironically, the law of diminishing returns suggests that, if you feel a strong emotional reaction to a story and want to help, you should probably resist this inclination because there are probably many others like you who are also donating. By all means, you should harness the emotion you feel when a natural disaster strikes, but remind yourself that a similar disaster is happening all the time - and then consider donating to wherever your money will help the most rather than what is getting the most attention. — William MacAskill

The way you glance at me when you think I might be looking your way is one of my favorite things in the world. — Melissa Brown

Styles differ, but the faces remain — Bard Constantine

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist. — Cees Nooteboom

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it. — Libba Bray

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story. — S.E. Hinton

Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise; — Moliere

It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there - his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments. — Carl Sagan