Notable Quotes

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.

Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.

In my lowest moments, when I genuinely longed for death, I knew that Jesus would walk with me through that valley as well.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

Since the waiting time required during the rendering process has been dramatically shorter in the last 10 years, I think that CGI animation has finally become practical. It is a fact that I processed the Steamboy work based on the assumption that the machine spec would be higher. In that context, young 3D animators have also gotten more skillful in recent years. But what I didn't expect is that the skills of traditional 2D animators have become worse, and notable young animators have not come out to the scene. This is a big issue for the industry.

So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.

Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

During my time in the entourages of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, I never saw either of them attack and punish those who disagree, as Dobson does on a regular basis.

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.

The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.

There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

If the president signs any of it, good. If he vetoes, it will be clarifying. Who then will be the party of no? The vetoed legislation would become the framework for a 2016 GOP platform. Let the debate begin.

This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.

Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.

That is simply stunning.

Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.

It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

The odd thing is that Trump's hand movements don't seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc. Trump's got about three moves, the most notable of which is his "okay" gesture, making a circle with his thumb and forefinger. Anyway, Trump has only a few gestures, including that one, and to my eye he uses them seemingly indiscriminately. I've seen him use the "okay/f.u." sign to be pedantic.

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.

The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.

It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.

My commitment to the Bible [is my] source of progressive values.

If one cannot imagine Obama saying such a thing — well, he didn't.