Policraticus Quotes

#1. The infant is ten and he stays,

William Goldman

#2. Sam Parks was simply a paid agent for his union, receiving the same salary as an ordinary workman in his trade. In reality, Baker tracked him "riding about in his cab, wearing diamonds, appearing on the street with his blooded bulldog, supporting his fast horses, 'treating' his friends.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#3. The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#4. We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

Tim DeChristopher

#5. I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

Julian Fellowes

#6. There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

J.A. Konrath

#7. the prudent person neither neglects important commitments nor gets overextended.

William C. Mattison III

#8. I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

George Carey

#9. Promises didn't mean much...Anything could happen when all was said and done.

Allison Brennan

#10. Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.

John Campbell Shairp

#11. It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

Regina King