“Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.”
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Angry Quotes — page 40 of 1190
“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.”
“When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.”
“And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, "This is my creation, perfect in every way... oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it... Now I have to create Republicans."”
“I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”
“I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.”
“A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.”
“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
“It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth and can be radical.”
“Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: with mindfulness, you can see that they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You'll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted.”
“Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity”
“If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.”
“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”
“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!”
“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”
“Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.”
“Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”
“Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.”
“I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.”
“The South may not always be right, but by God it's never wrong!”