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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

P. J. O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Character History Death Election Out

We are really the victims of our own problems.

Jimmy Greaves

Problems Own Victims Our Really

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

Joe Meno

Writing Control You Looks Want Over

Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.

Joe Torre

World Sometimes Say They Say Little

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

Andrew Shue

Good Time Balance Losing Win Tough

If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'

Andrew Lansley

Future Time You Go Become Need

Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not.

Meir Soloveichik

Son God He Either Jesus

Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.

Tom Frieden

Day Government World Year Every Day

I think this life is hard without assistance from others.

RuPaul

Life Think Life Is Hard Others Hard

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

Michael O'Brien

Love Grace Learn Trying Loving

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

Miranda Lambert

Looking Always Over Shoulder Because

We are born with freedom and hope, but often that's dashed because of our color. But in school, I'd already been taught that no one could tell me that you can't do something because you're black.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Hope Freedom School Me Color Black

The Prophet Joseph Smith lived in troubled times.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Lived Prophet Troubled Joseph Times