Month: August 2000

Quoting Margaret Thatcher, on personal attacks

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Quoting Nora Ephron, on certain among the insane

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Quoting Walter Lippmann, on self-awareness

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Proverbs 3:5, on trust

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.

— New Living Translation

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Quoting “Psycho,” on trust

I think I must have one of those faces you can’t help believing.

Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).

— Alfred Hitchcock, director

Quoting Sparky Anderson, on power versus speed

If you have to choose between power and speed — and it often turns out you have to make that choice — you’ve got to go for speed.