Uncle Bulgaria Quotes & Sayings

The spirit of our age is hostile toward people who state their opinions clearly and hold them strongly. — John R.W. Stott

I just don't think there's that many people who think it's wrong to have control on our borders. That's not racism. It's not racism to question some of the political correctness today that's going on, to recognize that things are going as well as - for American workers, as they'd like, because people, their frustration is arising from a deep sense of unease that Washington is fiddling while their house is burning. — Jeff Sessions

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie. — David Hackworth

Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian. — Oscar Wilde

What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to recognize who you are, whether they are willing to admit it or not. — Robin Hobb

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up. — Nicholas Stern

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience. — Steven Weber

God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator. — Elie Faure

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians. — Harold Ford Jr.

An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe. — E. M. Forster

My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all the knowledge the book presupposed. I was very far indeed from imagining that often the author did not possess it himself, but had extracted it from other books, as and when he needed it. This foolish conviction forced me to stop every moment, and to rush incessantly from one book to another; sometimes before coming to the tenth page of the one I was trying to read I should, by this extravagant method, have had to run through whole libraries. Nevertheless I stuck to it so persistently that I wasted infinite time, and my head became so confused that I could hardly see or take in anything. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau