I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. Salinger
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As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it. -
Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11. -
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. -
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. -
Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
More quotes by J. D. Salinger
- I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
- It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
- I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
- I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.