National Narcissism Quotes

#1. Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.

Amity Shlaes

#2. In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. I wouldn't say I know him, but I'm familiar with his work.

Alice Clayton

#5. An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.

Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

#6. Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness ... they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

Maria Sharapova

#7. Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Nathalie Sarraute

#8. Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

Ben Carson

#9. Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

Rob Payne

#10. The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

Samuel Johnson

#11. Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

Marko Djurdjevic

#13. Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

Abbe Pierre

#14. Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation,

Desson Thomson