Trumanites Quotes & Sayings

Trumanites work for the President. Can't he simply "stand tall" and order them to do what he directs, even though they disagree? The answer is complex. It is not that the Trumanites would not obey;174 it is that such orders would rarely be given. Could not shades into would not, and improbability into near impossibility: President Obama could give an order wholly reversing U.S. national security policy, but he would not, because the likely adverse consequences would be prohibitive. — Michael J. Glennon

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. — Lionel Trilling

I kept thinking the rest of my sentence would emerge from the air passing through my vocal cords, but nothing happened. — John Green

One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe. — Erich Warsitz

Prayer and holiness are learned in a similar way as commitments are made, habits are formed and battles are fought against a real opponent (Satan, in this case), who with great cunning plays constantly on our weak spots. — J.I. Packer

The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying. — Tabitha Suzuma

I wish writing were really like the way Andy staged it here: Me in a mania at a desk while a group of people stand around cheering in awe. More realistically, it's me pooping around on Twitter until I get an idea. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. — Bill O'Reilly

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won. — Sherrod Brown

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. — Wilfrid Sheed

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact. — Stanley Fish

A new broom sweeps clean. — Hildred Rex

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it. — Jules Michelet

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs. — Miranda Hart

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries. — Jean Ingelow