P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

P. J. O'Rourke

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PeopleGrowAmericaMoreEconomy

To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.

John Archibald Wheeler

LoveHateEndAppreciateLovingUp

The Federal Reserve is committed to fulfilling our statutory mandate of stable prices and maximum employment.

Jerome Powell

Federal ReserveEmploymentCommitted

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

Angus Deaton

GrowWhyMysteriousSlowlySome

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

GoodThinkAnythingGoingI Think

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Spiro T. Agnew

CityYouSeenSlumThemExtent

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

Skylar Grey

FlawsEmbraceBecomeNeedThings

I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well.

Ruth Reichl

ExperienceMemoryReadingThinkYou

I came to L.A. when I was 19, and my two roommates were blue-eyed, blond dudes. I helped coach them, and they both landed pilots.

Michael Pena

RoommatesTwoCoachPilotsBlue-Eyed

When I'm playing well because of my serve and trying to keep points shorter, I don't need to worry about my opponent. All I need to do is focus on myself and have them adjust to me rather than me adjust to them. That's when I play my best tennis.

Milos Raonic

MyselfBestFocusMeWorryPlay

The bourgeois are other people.

Jules Renard

PeopleOtherBourgeois

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean de la Bruyere

ManHimFavorDiscoverBeforeWhich

Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

David Shields

PassionSportsTeamBetterBeatOur

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