#bout

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#flattery #gossip #objects #present #say

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#fact #going #i #more #old

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#brings #economic #economic system #encourages #growth

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#answers #any #because #delve #essentially

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#best #despair #east #just #like

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be. ↗

— Annette O'Toole

#being #best #christopher #christopher reeve #embodied

I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues. ↗

— Barack Obama

#children #couples #doubt #families #friends

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career. ↗

— Barack Obama

#acorn #alongside #been #care #career

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. ↗

— Barack Obama

#about #absolute #absolute power #chambers #either