Taranto Quotes

#1. Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

James Taranto

#2. Personal Branding is the combination of one's skills and talents to produce value for people that creates an impression, a perception and reputation in the mind of others

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#3. There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

Kat Graham

#4. An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Pope Francis

#5. Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

James Taranto

#6. If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

James Taranto

#7. People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

Chuck Smith

#9. People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

Paul Auster

#10. Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

James Taranto

#11. I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Robin Day

#12. I still feel really hopeless sometimes. I don't like my job. And I've stopped thinking about finding another one. And, even though I hardly ever think about Sam anymore, it still seems impossible that I might have something like that again. A relationship, I guess.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. The American people are fed up ... with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

James Taranto

#14. You're dead mister and you died for nothing.
You're dead mister.
Dead.

Dalton Trumbo

#15. One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change ... is that I really need to go home and practice.

Pat Metheny

#16. Perfection is the highest standard for men;
perfection is the only standard for God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.

Piet Mondrian

#18. Its entry on the scene was not generally peaceful. A flood of mistrust, sometimes of hatred, above all of moral indignation, regularly opposed itself to the first innovator.

Max Weber

#19. The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.

James Taranto

#21. The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way - that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony.

James Taranto

#22. Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

James Taranto

#23. I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

Richard Condon