quotes about Liaison

“It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.”

“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”

“Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs”

“We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.”

Source : "Re-enacting Waterloo". www.economist.com. June 16, 2005.

“Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'”

“No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.”

Source : "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.

“The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag.”

“Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.”

“Together, we’ll beat autism.”

“I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.”