Stupid is a great force in human affairs.P. J. O'RourkeTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
“Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.”P. J. O'RourkeEscape
“We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.”
“The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.”Jon Kabat-ZinnAffairs
“World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.”George P. ShultzAffairs
“We are the poorest and weakest state in the world, occupying the lowest position in international affairs; the rest of mankind is the carving knife and the serving dish, while we are the fish and the meat.”
“When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.”P. J. O'RourkeAssume
“Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.”P. J. O'RourkePursue
“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.”James RestonAffairs
“Global affairs consultant Ian Bremmer, founder of the Eurasia Group, has started a newsletter called 'Signal,' aimed at millennials. For years, Bremmer has written a maddeningly all-lowercase yet fascinating weekly newsletter on geopolitics.”Adam LashinskyAffairs
“A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question.”Alexandra RobbinsAffairs