Emmett Tyrrell Quotes

#1. Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.

Emmett Tyrrell

#2. When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations

Bruce Cockburn

#3. For the dead there are no more toils.

Sophocles

#4. The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

Freeman Dyson

#5. A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

Harry Connick Jr.

#6. Do you ever sing in the car?"
"Generally not. But I am driving a police car."
"I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic."
"You can talk for a long time about nothing."
"I certainly can, you charming man!

Maureen Johnson

#7. Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Emmett Tyrrell

#8. The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

Emmett Tyrrell

#9. A man who sits hopelessly needs hope to get up more than he needs legs.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.

Emmett Tyrrell

#11. Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

Emmett Tyrrell

#12. I'm a morning person, really alert.

Alice Temperley

#13. [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

Emmett Tyrrell

#14. No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.

Ally Carter

#15. The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.

Ted Cruz

#16. Gary made the word heterosexual sound like something out of The Joy of Extreme Sex. Lovechildren produced by illicit affairs were still a bit of a sore topic with me.

J.L. Merrow

#17. God always shows us the introduction and the conclusion of our dreams to excite us about the whole task. He doesn't want to show us the daunting body of our dreams because He knows that we'll rather run away from our dreams than to pursue them.

Euginia Herlihy

#18. Keep your drunken electrons dancing!

Judith Hanson Lasater

#19. One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.

Emmett Tyrrell

#20. Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

Emmett Tyrrell

#21. Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?

Marcus Aurelius

#22. Odessa is the setting for this book, but it could be anyplace in this vast land where, on a Friday night, a set of spindly stadium lights rises to the heavens to so powerfully, and so briefly, ignite the darkness.

H. G. Bissinger

#23. Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

Emmett Tyrrell