The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret AtwoodPresident Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
Clint EastwoodWe should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
Narendra ModiI think the word rich is all relative.
Joel OsteenPakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
Noam ChomskyThere are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.
Virat KohliUnlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.
Robert KiyosakiThose movies sure got me into a rut.
Elvis PresleyEvery philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand RussellI seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Margaret ThatcherThat the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.
Isaac NewtonIf all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard ShawGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark TwainThe most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas JeffersonIf you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.
Robert GreeneIf the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret AtwoodIn the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.
Thich Nhat HanhYou’re beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest HemingwayThere are as many opinions as there are experts.
Franklin D. RooseveltThis administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
Harry S. TrumanViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac AsimovDuring most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
Kurt VonnegutPolitics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank ZappaFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily DickinsonWomanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Alice WalkerWell, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret AtwoodIs it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George EliotPoets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert FrostIt is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Queen Elizabeth IIThe Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
George Bernard ShawThere is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William JamesI wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.
Angelina JolieThere is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin DisraeliBeauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander PopeHow happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander PopeTruth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.
Hunter S. ThompsonA commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl MarxHe does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William ShakespeareHesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest HemingwayI am a fan of the ‚Rocky‘ films, and ‚Rocky 4‘ is my favourite. I also like ‚The Warriors.‘
Virat KohliIf you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
Steven WrightThe difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Charles BukowskiThe behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.
Hunter S. ThompsonStates are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
PlatoIt’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘
Bill GatesWhat we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.
Jim MattisAll genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
George Bernard ShawIt pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac AsimovAnalysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
David ByrneI would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack LondonColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob DylanTo insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert CamusSo foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William ShakespeareI’m not a macroeconomics person.
Bill GatesIt amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
David BowieI have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Bill GatesNone of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.
Angelina JolieThe U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘
Noam ChomskyPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan