For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.
Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.
First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H. G. Wells novel.
If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.
No family is ever what it seems from the outside.
Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.
Donald Trump, I guess one idea here if he`s flip flopping, has he bought himself cover with his base by all the inflammatory thing he`s said over the last year? But the flip side is, all of those inflammatory things, the voters he`s trying to reach by flip flopping, are they tuned out to him because of that?
That is potentially putting us all in the target hairs now is the reactivation of a new nuclear arms race. This arms race and this cold war is potentially hotter than it's been at any time in my lifetime.
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay. . . The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale
[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.