A Quote by Lionel Shriver

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver
American - Journalist
Born: May 18, 1957

The upper middle class here still has options for entertainment. We have Internet, Hollywood and books. But for the majority and the masses, there is only TV. A lot of them sit at home and watch TV as they can't afford other forms of entertainment. So, we try to do shows which have inspirational value.

Sanam Saeed

The cable package continues to be the greatest value in the history of entertainment. The average hour watched on cable television costs between 15 and 25 cents. For most people who cannot afford other kinds of entertainment, it is their entertainment.

John Skipper

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

Thomas Jefferson

In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him.

Rajneesh

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

Chris Grayling

America has spent as of one month ago $6 trillion in the Middle East. And in our country we can't afford to build a school in Brooklyn or we can't afford to build a school in Los Angeles. And we can't afford to fix up our inner cities. We can't afford to do anything.

Donald Trump

I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it.

CeCe Winans

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

W. Somerset Maugham

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Liberia just needs to go through this one political transition and it can really take off. Everything's in place now. We cannot afford to put the country in the hands of someone that lacks the experience.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.

John Lindsay

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Morgan Parker

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

Malcolm Turnbull

For any kid who feels like a newcomer, who feels like they don't belong, my candidacy says, 'Not only do you belong, you can also aspire to run this country.'

Jagmeet Singh

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

Morgan Parker

We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.

Sidney Buchman

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