Vidiano Lyrarakis Quotes & Sayings

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth. — Frank Luntz

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza ... — Violet Trefusis

After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it. — Swami Vivekananda

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected. — P. J. O'Rourke

Madam, my father has left me flopping like a flounder at low tide and you say what's the matter. — Harper Lee

The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world. — Aasif Mandvi

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal. — George Sheehan

As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something else. And that is not reckless. — Chris Christie

In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God. — Rick Warren

I fear no man. If you breathe oxygen, I do not fear you. — Conor McGregor

It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger. — Jenny Slate

Moreover, no one feels grateful to anyone for those benefits of freedom that all share in common, at least so long as they enjoy them. — Niccolo Machiavelli

A boy I know named Michael, the oldest often children, came home one night intoxicated with E. When he saw the family's pet Labrador in the kitchen he strangled it to death, convinced that it was the devil. The dog bit him and there was blood all over the kitchen. The siblings who ran in to watch the aftermath of the scene were traumatized. Michael is now in drug rehab recovering from addiction. — Sean Covey

The tunnels shrieked with the wind, each one with its own febrile pitch, creating a fierce chorus. — Steven Erikson