P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke

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LovePowerIgnoranceStupidityGreed

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies - I was Armed with Insight.

Jim Mattis

FightLongInsightNeverEnemies

Taking a walk here and there and eating healthy is great. But I also feel like confidence and body image have a lot to do with how you feel on the inside.

Jessie James Decker

ConfidenceGreatWalkEatingBody

There are so many great singers out there.

Jessie Ware

GreatOutSingersMany

Faulkner's characters, too, were uneducated. They were deprived, but they were allowed to have very rich inner lives. I want to advocate for that, for inner lives that are much more complicated and more poetic than we think.

Jesmyn Ward

RichThinkComplicatedWantMore

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

John Garamendi

WorkNatureMotherEnvironmentalUp

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Andrew Young

LifeOpportunityAmerican DreamDream

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

YouWrongGoMessThingsAnkle

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.

Robert A. Cook

LifeSmallLittleAwayThrowOnce

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Robert Casey

GoodPowerManPoliticalSenseWho

If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general.

Robin Marantz Henig

LifeYouSatisfiedSocial LifeYour

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Loretta Lynn

SadMountainsGrowing UpSadnessYou

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.

Julia Holter

LifeParentsRestThoughtMy Life

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