Milbank Quotes

#1. The clock over the mantel in the beau parlor at the Milbank House ticked

Adriana Trigiani

#2. It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

Dana Milbank

#3. And the mile once again becomes the focal point where it's always been

Ron Pickering

#4. One minute you're a happy fourteen-yearold - good at everything you try, popular, fun - the next you're a freak with wings

Cynthia Hand

#5. Fear is not cowardice. Acting in a wrong and contemptible
manner because of our fear is cowardice.

R.M. Ballantyne

#6. A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.

Annalee Newitz

#7. No, none of us seem so very real.
We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other.
Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively recognize and do not recognize our own subjectivity, in an inexhaustible dialectic.

John Milbank

#9. I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that the terrorists are not very sophisticated.

Dana Milbank

#10. Well golly fucking gosh how terribly delightful for her. Now get out.

Tabitha McGowan

#11. President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

Dana Milbank

#12. Only good liers can be good at depicting whether the other person is lying or not. A truthful person often remains subdued from the harsh realities of the society.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#13. If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

Jack Nicholson

#14. Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.

Dana Milbank

#15. Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

Dana Milbank

#16. I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.

Max Burns

#17. God has lots of children in the church today; I'm honestly not sure He has many friends.

Mike Pilavachi

#18. After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.

Dana Milbank

#19. I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

Russell Westbrook

#20. Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.

John Milbank