Henry M Leland Quotes

#1. The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Henry A. Kissinger

#2. Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

John Phillips

#3. Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.

Peter Heather

#4. The shifting sands of the world ... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'.

Michael Richardson

#5. In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

Viggo Mortensen

#6. I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Allen Ginsberg

#8. When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.

Jeff Merkley

#9. One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

John Muir

#10. Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

Duke Ellington

#11. you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

James Patterson

#12. If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles ... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

T. Allen Lawson

#13. He glued the chair to my ass."
Silence.
"Is it still ... attached?"
"I can't get it off.

Ilona Andrews