I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do to... her what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one migh...t call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even the most incompetent English actor, coming on the stage briefly to announce the presence below of Lord and Lady Ditherege, gi...ves forth a sound so soft and dulcet as almost to be a bar of music. But sometimes that is all there is. The words are lost in the graceful sweep of the notes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name..., my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Age affects how people experience time. The observations on this are well known, so it is only necessary to outline briefly what h...as been the experience of everyone I have ever talked to or read about: the years go faster as one gets older. At the age of four or six, a year seems interminable; at sixty, the years begin to blend and are frequently hard to separate from each other because they move so fast! There are, of course, a number of common-sense explanations for this sort of thing. If you have only lived five years, a year represents 20 percent of your life; if you have lived fifty years, that same year represents only 2 percent of your life, and since lives are lived as wholes, this logarithmic element would make it difficult to maintain the same perspective on the experience of a year's passage throughout a lifetime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, an...d none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar--that I call an achievement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who ...has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to ...the sum involved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »