P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.

P. J. O'Rourke

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GoodMoneyGovernmentCaringPeople

If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.

Joe R. Lansdale

TimeWalkTryingYouBackMatter

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

Jennifer Tilly

HollywoodAlwaysKissesWherePhony

In TV, a woman helping another woman break in? Not that common.

Megyn Kelly

WomanBreakCommonHelpingTV

In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

Matthew Desmond

WayPoorHarderThanThemselves

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

HistoryWarWorldYouPageWill

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Sri Chinmoy

LoveHateSomeoneWishYouTo Love

I would like to be somebody young people, young girls, can look up to.

Tori Kelly

PeopleLookYoungYoung PeopleUp

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

Lois Lowry

ChangeAgeWorldThinkFeelEarly

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

Josie Maran

TimeDatingMeSomeoneMoreWhere

People think about history as all grand gestures or significant moments, but the most valuable lesson we can learn is the enduring legacy of the small, meaningful things in life.

Deborah Harkness

LifeHistoryPeopleLegacySmall

I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.

Chris Eigeman

FamilyMoneyFunMeCoolLawyers

I'll flip a stupid tire. But I ain't running.

Brantley Gilbert

StupidTireFlipRunning

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