Varuzhan Gonchegulyan Quotes & Sayings

Speak then, dear lady. I am a field of corn." "Field of corn?" "All ears. — Tony Lewis

Ah, to that far distant strand
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way. — Friedrich Schiller

Cruelty lacks pleasure when it's directed at you, doesn't it? — Sarah MacLean

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government's assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors' needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior. — Doug Bandow

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. — Otto Hermann Kahn

There is no such thing as too much lace on your underwear," Zurra explained. "Do you know who said that? George Washington. — Aaron Lee Yeager

Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests groups, and every election...we vote them in again. — Colleen Hitchcock

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff ... forms a base on which to build something better. — Jennifer Egan

Black: I see a different truth. Settin right across the table from me.
White: Which is?
Black: That you must love your brother or die. — Cormac McCarthy

The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity. — Pete Hamill

But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers. — William Cowper