2 States: The Story of My Marriage
“People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.”
Los Angeles Times (October 31,1999)
Context: People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you fucking options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't fucking call.
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
“Tis the quiet people that do the work.”
Act III. — (Lucia).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 243.
L’Amor Costante (1536)
“This is not the first time that our people have had to deal with an attack of an arrogant foe.”
Radio broadcast in response to the German invasion (22 June 1941) http://historicalresources.org/2008/08/26/molotov-reaction-to-german-invasion-of-1941/
Context: This is not the first time that our people have had to deal with an attack of an arrogant foe. At the time of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia our people’s reply was war for the fatherland, and Napoleon suffered defeat and met his doom.
It will be the same with Hitler, who in his arrogance has proclaimed a new crusade against our country. The Red Army and our whole people will again wage victorious war for the fatherland, for our country, for honor, for liberty.
The government of the Soviet Union expresses the firm conviction that the whole population of our country, all workers, peasants and intellectuals, men and women, will conscientiously perform their duties and do their work. Our entire people must now stand solid and united as never before.
Each one of us must demand of himself and of others discipline, organization and self-denial worthy of real Soviet patriots, in order to provide for all the needs of the Red Army, Navy and Air Force, to insure victory over the enemy.
The government calls upon you, citizens of the Soviet Union, to rally still more closely around our glorious Bolshevist party, around our Soviet Government, around our great leader and comrade, Stalin. Ours is a righteous cause. The enemy shall be defeated. Victory will be ours.
“I have found that many people use arrogance to try to hide their own ignorance.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
As quoted in My Brother Adlai (1956) by Elizabeth Stevenson Ives and Hildegarde Dolson
Huffington Post, "Palin biographer accuses me of planning anti-government violence" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barrett-brown/palin-biographer-accuses-_b_791741.html, 3 December 2010.
“Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.”
Source: And Then There Were None: A Mystery Play in Three Acts
