You can endure all things by grace (Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government (Mackenzie King)
You still owe me a million dollars.” I’d presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn’t imagine why.”Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out.””The interest alone is going to kill you.””What do you charge?””Three hundred eighty-seven percent.””Is that ethical?””It’s as ethical as my dating the son of Satan
You still owe me a million dollars.” I’d presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn’t imagine why.”Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out.””The interest alone is going to kill you.””What do you charge?””Three hundred eighty-seven percent.””Is that ethical?””It’s as ethical as my dating the son of Satan (Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light)
Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king
Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king (Louis L’Amour, Comstock Lode)
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever (George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows)
I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated) by an earlier generation of American historians. An especially egregious example of this, I argue, was American treatment of the Opium War, the objective importance of which was not nearly so great as we—and an almost unanimous corps of Chinese historians—have imagined
I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated) by an earlier generation of American historians. An especially egregious example of this, I argue, was American treatment of the Opium War, the objective importance of which was not nearly so great as we—and an almost unanimous corps of Chinese historians—have imagined. (Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past)
Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth
Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth. (Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband)
I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble and I will steal from everywhere to do it
I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble and I will steal from everywhere to do it. (George Balanchine)
I was born out of a Vegas marriage: My parents got married three days after they met
I was born out of a Vegas marriage: My parents got married three days after they met. (Elle King)
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment (Barbara Castle)