Damned Nations Quotes

#1. Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

#2. Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?"
"No," said Dagny, "I don't.

Ayn Rand

#3. For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.

Markus Zusak

#4. John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

Paul C. Nagel

#5. We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real.

Austin Grossman

#6. It must be so easy to judge the decisions of someone else when you sit back and do nothing.

Scott Sigler

#7. Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.

Frank Abagnale

#8. There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

Khaled Hosseini

#9. The truth was ... none of that kept people from leaving. Nothing could, if the person was determined to go. The only question was how long you were willing to chase them.

Cora Carmack

#10. Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.

Robby Krieger

#11. It's when you meet another wretch who is as negative as you about everything that the thunder rolls and the lightening crashes and real life starts - because genuine communication has started

Ben Watson

#12. I haven't given up on working ... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.

David Axelrod

#13. By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.

William James

#14. A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Matt Ridley

#15. I want to stand up and say so. He let his eyes wander over us.

Nick Wilgus