250 Word Quotes

#1. We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.

John McCain

#2. If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#3. The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

Adam Driver

#4. If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Salman Rushdie

#5. It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

John George Nicolay

#6. Drift is the demon of democracy.

Anthony Eden

#7. Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice.
Before or after the accident?

Josh Lanyon

#8. When you are having a really crappy day, and life seems to be kicking your ass, try to force your self to laugh. If you can achieve a smile and a laugh, you can chase any demons away

L.F.Young

#9. I wasn't showing what I really felt. Real grief is ugly and uncomfortable. People look away from grief the same way they look away from severed limbs or gaping wounds. What they want is pain like death on a stage: beautiful, bloodless, presented for their entertainment

Sarah Rees Brennan

#10. Our job is to make others feel better and to find happiness. It will ultimately make you happy and abundant.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Paula Vogel