Unreconstructed Quotes

#1. I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

Norman Thomas

#2. It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living.

John Crowe Ransom

#3. Lord, but why don't you go to this lawyer yourself and tell him the whole business in private? They say he was invited from Petersburg for three thousand.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however.

Glenn Beck

#5. I was a little stunned that we didn't get a coloring book with this menu.

Nick Faldo

#6. Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

Yuri Andropov

#7. A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby.

Dana Gould

#8. A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

Paul Bowles

#9. People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

Yann Martel

#10. I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.

Usher

#11. Women like to make up rules to befuddle you ... it's part of living in their world. Get used to it.

Lindsay Buroker

#12. The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

Abraham H. Maslow

#13. I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

Henry Fielding