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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

P. J. O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1947

Topics

Car Health Job Retirement You High

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Jessamyn West

Change Facts Ignore Want Fit Easier

We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.

Angela Duckworth

Positive Future Grit You Bad Mean

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Steven Pinker

Art Photography Attention Directing

I've wrestled my whole life, and when I got done with college, I went back to school to become a firefighter. I liked MMA, but I didn't really know if I wanted to get punched in the face!

Stipe Miocic

Life School College Face Back Know

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Socrates

Living Matters Rightly

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

Tony Campolo

Marriage Government Church Separation

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

Mike Singletary

Practice Team Talk Championship Like

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Chuck Eddy

Critics Convictions Stick Should

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

Brooke Shields

New York Mom World New Lifestyle

If a man is secure enough to allow his partner to go out and express herself, and if he does not feel as ambitious as her, he can be a homemaker also. There is nothing wrong with it.

Arjun Kapoor

Man Partner Feel Enough Wrong Go

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

Ashlee Simpson

Love Heart Someone You Kind See

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Mankind Must Govern Them