Lytton Strachey

Future Quotes

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.: Jim Sensenbrenner

We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.: John Shadegg

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren’t in the freshman class and aren’t graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.: Donna Shalala

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.: Lytton Strachey

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it’s great.: Audrey Tautou

A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I’m thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.: David Letterman

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.: Suzanne Somers

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national – it is universal.: Lytton Strachey

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.: Lytton Strachey

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.: Michael Novak

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who’s seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they’re being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.: Robert Nozick

What hadn’t been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.: Robert Nozick

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.: Boris Pasternak

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.: Raymond Queneau

The literature of women’s lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.: Phyllis Rose

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.: George Orwell

Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.: Robert Dale Owen

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.: Marcel Pagnol

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.: Annie Proulx

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.: Bernice Johnson Reagon

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.: Lytton Strachey