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| [Unlike Bush, Reagan did his White House radio broadcasts live, a habit that got him into trouble in 1984, when he made a now-infamous joke during a sound check into an open microphone.] My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever, ... We begin bombing in five minutes. | | Ronald Reagan | |
| [We drove down a few blocks and turned onto Prairie Chapel Road. On the corner was a Lutheran Church with a message board out front encouraging the flock to come out Sunday to show their support for the president and the troops. Jesus said, in the Sermon on the Mount,] Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God, ... Blessed are the warmongers, for they shall start wars for profit based on lies, and they shall send other people's children to kill and to die, and they shall be called the embarrassing and infrequently mentioned distant cousins in the family of God. | | Bible | |
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| [What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compelled to comprehend what might have been intended for our universe by The Old One (as he referred to his notion of God).] We are in the position, ... of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects. | | Albert Einstein | |
| [When Judy Garland lost the 1954 best actress Oscar to Grace Kelly in] The Country Girl, ... Dear Judy, this is the biggest robbery since Brinks. | | Groucho Marx | |
| [when told not to speak ill of the dead] 'Just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed!' | | Bette Davis | |
| [While astronomers expected the early history of the Milky Way was quite chaotic, most had believed] that it since had been rather calm, ... But this turns out not to be true. Stars have been perturbed all the time throughout the Milky Way history. | | Niels Bohr | |
| [While she was working on] Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture; why then do all one can to give credence to these lies. | | Paul Claudel | |
| [While] we are all anxious to see restraint ... We understand it's important to get the terror down -- if terror goes down, then the response to terror will no longer be required. | | Colin Powell | |
| [With shutters clicking and flashes popping, Wilson demanded anew that Rove be fired.] I made my bones confronting Saddam Hussein and securing the release of over 2,000 Americans in hiding in Kuwait, ... Karl Rove made his bones doing political dirty tricks. This is not about Joe Wilson. | | George Washington | |
| [W]hen one is 'born again,' one is newly a child. It represents a second return to a state of chronic dependency. Perhaps what we specifically need is not to be 'born again,' but to grow up and become mature adults. | | Bible | |
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| [Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. | | Frederick Douglass | |
| [• U.S. intelligence analysis of two suspected mobile laboratories found in Iraq has determined they were] certainly designed and constructed for ... you can't find actual germs on them. | | Colin Powell | |
| [· Also on DVD: A two-disc] Fern Gully . . . The Last Rainforest, ... Pet Alien. | | Robin Williams | |
| `Character,' says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - `character is destiny.' | | George Eliot | |
| `Confound Romance!' . . . And all unseen / Romance brought up the nine-fifteen. | | Rudyard Kipling | |
| `Father, O father! what do we here / In this land of unbelief and fear? / The Land of Dreams is better far, / Above the light of the morning star.' | | William Blake | |
| `Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.' / `I should have called it / Something you somehow haven't to deserve.' | | Robert Frost | |
