Charles Krauthammer Famous Quotes
"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."
A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.
"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it."
"Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing."
Charles Krauthammer Quotations
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy."
Ursula K LeGuin
"Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information."
Mark Twain
"He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life."
Bette Davis
Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.
Marcius Porcius Cato
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
Aristotle
Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight.
Terry Goodkind
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter Drucker
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it."
Thucyclides