“There were certain things money definitely could not buy. Honesty. Integrity. Ethics.”
― Trust No One
― Trust No One
“Indeed the word ‘bigot’ was originally a Parisian insult for Normans, and came from their habit of using the Germanic oath ‘bei Gott’ or ‘by God’.”
― 1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
― 1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
“people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.”
― The Cardinal of the Kremlin
― The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“It was like making and executing policy inside a pinball machine, not the West Wing of the White House.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
“2001 In the days and weeks following the attacks on 9/11, life returned to normal, but it felt wrong, like a favorite shirt worn inside out--still your shirt, still recognizable, but rubbing in all the wrong places, the seams revealed, the tags hanging out, the colors dulled, the words backward. But unlike the shirt, the sense of wrong couldn’t be righted. It was permanent, the new normal.”
― Making Faces
― Making Faces
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