Thomas E. Gaddis quote: "I am sorry for only two things. These two things are: I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole darned human race"

Alcatraz, the federal prison with a name like the blare of a trombone, is a black molar in the jawbo...
THOMAS E. GADDIS

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
WILLIAM GADDIS

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.
WILLIAM GADDIS

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
WILLIAM GADDIS

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we l...
WILLIAM GADDIS

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is peo...
WILLIAM GADDIS

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
WILLIAM GADDIS

Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.
WILLIAM GADDIS

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, an...
WILLIAM GADDIS

[T]here is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and r...
WILLIAM GADDIS

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
WILLIAM GADDIS

Justice? -- You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
WILLIAM GADDIS

Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stoc...
WILLIAM GADDIS

. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, ...
WILLIAM GADDIS

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
WILLIAM GADDIS

We played Hayden last week and missed 13 free throws in the fourth quarter and still somehow won.
JACKY GADDIS

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance
WILLIAM GADDIS

She's (Cavanaugh) good. She was the only one out there taking the ball for them.
JACKY GADDIS

That was an amazing first quarter. We've got to put four of those together to get where we want to g...
JACKY GADDIS

They are not real free throws in Elks, because no one is tired. I have always thought that they shou...
JACKY GADDIS

One of the best things about it is that it's the same for everyone. The same for girls and for the y...
JACKY GADDIS

I think that free throws are the most overlooked thing in basketball. There are some coaches who don...
JACKY GADDIS

It's just awesome. It is such a fun thing for the kids to do. It is run so well.
JACKY GADDIS

It's more mental than anything else. It is more than just the art of shooting.
JACKY GADDIS

I kind of had some bad memories. I didn't want to do it at first. Looking back at it now, it's the b...
C.J. GADDIS

I think we're going to play well. We don't really have any names back there. We don't have a Gaines ...
C.J. GADDIS

It wasn't all my fault, but it was more on me because I make the calls, and it was in my area.
C.J. GADDIS

I'm not totally sure myself. I'm just going to go out there and work hard and get back what I want.
C.J. GADDIS

It's been kind of difficult. But everybody has some obstacles they've got to overcome. I just look a...
C.J. GADDIS

Harvard in some ways is a more difficult place to be the president of because it is so large, with s...
GADDIS SMITH

It was too boring for the U.S..
GADDIS SMITH

Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventuall...
WILLIAM GADDIS

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
THOMAS E. MANN

During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil right...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is o...
THOMAS E. DONILON

If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up fr...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their w...
THOMAS E. LAWRENCE

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake t...
THOMAS E. LAWRENCE

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
THOMAS E. LAWRENCE

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.
THOMAS E. DEWEY

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
THOMAS E. LAWRENCE

Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.
THOMAS E. DEWEY

My parents both came to the United States from the Dominican Republic, and they were deeply grateful...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Historians have often censored civil rights activists' commitment to economic issues and misrepr...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk t...
THOMAS E. MANN

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following th...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller,...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the...
THOMAS E. MANN

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with...
THOMAS E. MANN

Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demograp...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ide...
THOMAS E. MANN

Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an envir...
THOMAS E. MANN

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican ...
THOMAS E. MANN

The overtime rule was frankly diluted in 2004 by a regulation put in place by the Bush administratio...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

We need to enact comprehensive immigration reform, to bring people out of the shadows and empower th...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisa...
THOMAS E. MANN

My father earned his citizenship by serving in the Army during World War II. He devoted his life to ...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and...
THOMAS E. MANN

Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.
THOMAS E. LOVEJOY

Misclassification is a serious problem in construction as well as other industries, and it is exacer...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've ...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

How can we say we're for family values when so many women in the United States have to jeopardiz...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 year...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working ...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

The King Holiday is a celebration of many things - his pursuit of racial justice, his commitment to ...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and s...
THOMAS E. MANN

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of op...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

The theme of the Labor Department's centennial is 'Then, Now, Next.' So in honoring Esth...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully b...
THOMAS E. MANN

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September...
THOMAS E. MANN

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attac...
THOMAS E. MANN

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
THOMAS E. DEWEY

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
THOMAS E. DEWEY

When you're leading, don't talk.
THOMAS E. DEWEY

Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world physically apart. Spiritu...
THOMAS E. DEWEY

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
THOMAS E. MANN

We can't understand what we've accomplished on civil rights without telling the story of Bay...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitatio...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

What was a surprise was when the dog answered his question.
'Want to play ball now,' Gab...
THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.
THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI

They're gonna get us', she cried as he tried to hold her tight. She was like a wild animal fighting ...
THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI

The organism - there was no other thing she could think to call it - churned and moved as it propell...
THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.
THOMAS E. LOVEJOY

At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his s...
THOMAS E. REYNOLDS

Last Saturday he set out to fix a screen upstairs. He went to the basement to get some nails. Downst...
THOMAS E. BROWN

The Department of Labor's final conflict of interest rule will ensure that America's workers...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

The best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pr...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

You want to know about the place called Hell?" he asked the curious animal. "There is no Hell," he s...
THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, w...
THOMAS E. MANN

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan off...
THOMAS E. MANN

Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safet...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

There are people who fantasize about suicide, and paradoxically, these fantasies can be soothing bec...
THOMAS E. JOINER

Tampa Electric has used apprenticeships since 1978 to make sure its workforce is the best in the bus...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerate...
THOMAS E. MANN

Americans should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of hard work. But too many Am...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

I've learned that it's important to listen to employees at all levels, to engage them, to em...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.
THOMAS E. MANN

Companies are recognizing that paid leave reduces training and turnover costs, that it's a formu...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign p...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and pr...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is c...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS

George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand s...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS

I kill when I hunt and do not apologize for that, although I reserve the right to think about its im...
E. DONNALL THOMAS, JR.

Libertarianism is “cultish,” say the sophisticates. Of course, there’s nothing cultish at all ...
THOMAS E. WOODS JR.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

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I am sorry for only two things. These two things are: I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole darned human race

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I am sorry for only two things. These two things are: I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole darned human race

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