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The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.
— Ron Suskind
And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.
— Patrick Suskind
He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.
— Patrick Suskind
Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.
— Patrick Suskind
The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.
— Ron Suskind
In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.
— Ron Suskind
Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.
— Ron Suskind
Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
— Ron Suskind
Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.
— Ron Suskind
The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.
— Ron Suskind
Security is by far the city's predominant business.
— Ron Suskind
Mrs. Porter was fat, and her breath smelled like burnt newspapers.
— Patrick Suskind
He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!
— Patrick Suskind
One world leader warned another the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.
— Ron Suskind
Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
— Patrick Suskind
Man's misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.
— Patrick Suskind
Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.
— Ron Suskind
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
— Ron Suskind
I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
— Ron Suskind
I'm a partisan, too. I'm in favor of AUTHENTICITY. US State Department veteran and U.N. refugee official Wendy Chamberlain
— Ron Suskind
You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.
— Ron Suskind
It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.
— Ron Suskind
As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.
— Patrick Suskind
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.
— Ron Suskind
He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
— Patrick Suskind
For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance.
— Patrick Suskind
A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.
— Ron Suskind
Religions find lasting utility in terms of prescription or parameter, rules for the conduct of human affairs.
— Ron Suskind
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.
— Patrick Suskind
For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.
— Ron Suskind
The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine - until it wasn't.
— Ron Suskind
She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.
— Patrick Suskind
He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.
— Patrick Suskind
He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
— Patrick Suskind
Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.
— Patrick Suskind
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
— Ron Suskind
The wind blew cold, and he was freezing, but he did not notice that he was freezing, for within him was a counterfrost, fear.
— Patrick Suskind
He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.
— Patrick Suskind
We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ron Suskind
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
— Ron Suskind
Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".
— Ron Suskind
He came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.
— Patrick Suskind
He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.
— Ron Suskind
Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.
— Ron Suskind
He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.
— Patrick Suskind
The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.
— Ron Suskind
Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer
— Patrick Suskind
But perhaps we ask too much of him. Perhaps he really was only a god.
— Patrick Suskind
Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.
— Ron Suskind
And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom
to direct their impotent rage. — Patrick Suskind
to direct their impotent rage. — Patrick Suskind
God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.
— Patrick Suskind
He did not want to have his newfound respiratory freedom ruined so soon be the sultry climate of humans.
— Patrick Suskind
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
— Ron Suskind
But he did decide vegetatively, as a bean when once tossed aside must decide if it ought to germinate or had better let things be.
— Patrick Suskind
How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.
— Patrick Suskind
He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.
— Patrick Suskind
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
— Ron Suskind
These were lobbyists - many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
— Ron Suskind