Weckerlin Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo. — Isaac Asimov

There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times. — Edmund Burke

The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months. — Barton Gellman

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything? — Nicole Krauss

The biggest fight in my relationship with Danny regards his absurd claim that he invited the popular middle school phenomenon of saying "cha-cha-cha" after each phrase of the Happy Birthday song- an idea his ingenious sixth-grade brain allegedly spawned in a New Jersey Chuck E. Cheese and watched spread across 1993 America with an unprecedented rapidity. — Marina Keegan

He smirked and that was it. I propelled myself forward and into his arms, our mouths instantly locking in a frenzied kiss, my hands grasping his collar, his shirt, his hair, his anything. — Jennifer DeLucy

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today. — Charles Spurgeon

When he settles in with the tray and cartridge, the TP's viewer's digital display reads 1927h. — David Foster Wallace

There are jobs Americans arent doing ... If youve got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what Im talking about. — George W. Bush

You do the big things by doing the little things right. — Stephen Cooper

He felt it coming. He needed to be more to this woman than just the guy who showed up begging her to sing his songs. He...
He had no time to make a move before she came across the cab and planted her lips against his. — Bernadette Marie

Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor. — Alexei Navalny

His [Francisco Goya's] debt to the Christianity of the eighteenth century is contained in the idea that politics was just adopting from the Gospels: the conviction that man has a right to justice. Such a statement would seem utterly conceited to a Roman, who would doubtless have looked upon the Disasters as we look upon photographs of the amphitheatre ... But if Goya thought that man has not come onto the earth to be cut to pieces he thought that he must have come here for something. Is it to live in joy and honour? Not only that; it is to come to terms with the world. And the message he never ceased to preach, a message underlined by war, is that man only comes to terms with the world by blinding himself with childishness. — Andre Malraux

It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover. — Ladyhawke

I'm going to close out this book with some bad news. One day you're going to die, and you can't predict when that will be. All I can guarantee is that it will be sooner than you expect. — Roosh V