Quotes about count
country believe passion
Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists. Gore Vidal
country father writing
A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.
country nonprofits belts
Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
country war honor
Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.
country political my-family
My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.
country new-york real
It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.
country love-you mean
You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.
country religious gay
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.
country people enemy
Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.
country religious fundamentals
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
country business writing
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
country past thinking
I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.
country average europe
I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.
country mother america
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
country courses whole
Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.
country war grief
Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.
country people united-states
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
country evil people
The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.
country class people
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
country objectivity media
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
count tough
He's a pretty tough character. I wouldn't count him out.
country major media people
He's a major media figure, he's someone people know all over the country. Fred Barnes
counter explosive good job second stopping
He's an explosive back. But give them credit, they did a good job of stopping the counter (late) in the second half.
countries france germany numbers united vast
Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem, ... But you look at vast numbers of other countries in Europe. They're not with France and Germany on this, they're with the United States. Donald Rumsfeld
count work
For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done. Richard Simmons
country lived point stars yard
For my own family, we lived out in the country and we'd go out in the yard with the telescope. I'd point out the stars and the planets. George Michael
count cut deserves goodman knows takes three top work
Goodman deserves to be one of the top three seeds. Travis has his work cut out for him, but don't count him out yet. He knows what it takes to get to Hershey.
country drama europe
That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas. Friedrich Nietzsche
country men thinking
It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits. George Berkeley
country men liberty
To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.
country should-have singers
I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries. George Burns
country men stupidity
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. George Bernard Shaw
country fit journalist
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.