The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.
I'm sick of voting blank checks.
Reacting to the appropriations for the Works Progress Administration, a writer quoted the late Speaker:
Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
We don't mess with squads. Our friend group is not, like, a strategic thing. There's no strategy to our friendships. There's no strategy to the circle of girls. Everyone's, like, bound together for different things.
It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.