Top 17 Tom Hagen Quotes
#1. It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
William Shakespeare
#2. Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.
Philip Pullman
#3. Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
Mackenzie King
#4. What's up with these people and the food analogies?!
Aziz Ansari
#5. White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
James Joyce
#6. Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
Amity Gaige
#7. In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes, even while making record investments in education and roads and health care.
Mike Pence
#9. Ability to Function Despite Imminent Catastrophe.
Mary Roach
#10. The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
Tanith Lee
#11. I blame Jeb for letting you be such a
smart aleck."
I stared at her. "I blame you for altering
my DNA! I mean, I have wings,
lady! What were you thinking?
James Patterson
#12. Maybe she'd been screaming for a long time.
Maybe the sound was imprisoned inside this cocoon, trapped like she was. Maybe no one would ever hear her. Maybe she would scream until her throat bled and no one would ever know.
Marissa Meyer
#13. A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
Stanislaw Lem
#14. Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close ... that, supposedly, I won't suspect.
Hagen: Somebody like me.
Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you.
Hagen: I'm German-American.
Michael: To them that's Irish.
Mario Puzo
#15. The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.
William Herschel
#16. Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
Mario Puzo
#17. Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
