#rve

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#being #country #detest #everything #fight

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#being #being used #brothels #cameras #catch

The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights. ↗

— Frank Miller

#coincidence #comics #crime #dc #did

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. ↗

— Henry Miller

#baseness #capable #direction #either #know

It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better. ↗

— Perry Miller

#clear #deserve #enough #good #home

They also serve who only stand and wait. ↗

— John Milton

#only #serve #stand #wait #who

I continued to serve in Congress until 2001. ↗

— David Minge

#continued #i #serve #until

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#conditions #division #labor #lasting #lasting peace

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#fool #i #observed #seem #should

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#another #asked #began #british #chairman