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Some Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce…
- The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
- I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I…
- When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power…
- There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a…
- So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available.…
- Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.
- To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get…
- Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to…
- Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
- Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.
- The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.
- The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg…
- I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the…
- Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.
- Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not…
- Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
- I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had…
- I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make…
- Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach