Whenever there's a big war coming on, you should rope off a big field. And on the big day, you should take all the kings and their... cabinets and their generals, put 'em in the center dressed in their underpants and let them fight it out with clubs. The best country wins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way I see it, God gave me the body, so I intend to use it. It's a big ego trip.... You know, you look around a bar, you pick o...ut a guy and you say, that's the one: I'm going to take all of his money tonight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years befo...re you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience wa...ves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders--now that we are become "men like gods." It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford ...to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everybody thinks detectives do nothing but ask questions. But detectives have souls the same as anyone else.... You know, Mrs. Ber...agon, being a detective is like, well, like making an automobile. You just take all the pieces and put them together one by one. First thing you know you've got an automobile. Or a murderer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, creat...ed. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I came to claim my kingdom and you refused me because I was not one of you. Now I am one of you, my subjects, we are bound by bloo...d, and I deserve to be your king. Your sins and your remorse, your mighty anguish, I take all upon myself. Fear your dead no more, they are my dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the mind's free, The body's delicate; this tempest in my mind... Doth from my senses take all feeling else, Save what beats there--filial ingratitude!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »