Taft Imperialism Quotes

#1. When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless ... " But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.

Jackie Chan

#2. Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.

Robert Reich

#4. Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Jane Smiley

#5. I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

John Barth

#7. If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. He did not walk in beauty like the night. In fact, he slouched in warthog ugly like a Hangover Monday in Barstow,

Carsten Stroud

#9. Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

Matt Simpson

#10. It's tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won't be able to deal with it.

Ned Vizzini

#11. Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

Steve Martin

#12. Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

Lord Chesterfield