Saying that that is “the most terrifying sentence ever uttered in the English language” is just the words of a politician pandering for conservative votes, preaching to the choir, right?
If nothing else, I expect that “I’m from the government, and I’m here to hurt you” is far more terrifying.
It’s always darkest just before the piano falls on you.
I’ve always blamed this one on my pseudonym Oliver Faltz, poor devil.
“Some days, the magic works. Some days, it doesn’t” – Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George)
What my dad used to tell us all the time when we were growing up.
“The identity of a man hovers halfway between himself and his observer.” (paraphrased)
“Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
“I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep.”
Patrick O’Brien
“You can’t learn any younger.” (My mother, whenever I said I didn’t know how to do something.)
Sometimes silence is the best answer.
The Dalai Lama