#anti

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. ↗

— Wade Davis

#children #could #elders #every #fate

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. ↗

— Peter Davison

#because #every #find #good #i

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#bit #colonel #father #high #i

I think that, on the reconciliation issue, if they had the votes, we wouldn't have had the summit. And if they try to go through reconciliation, it will be a change in semantics. Instead of the American people saying 'stop the bill' or 'kill the bill,' it's all going to be about repealing the bill. That's not the kind of discussion that they want. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#american #american people #bill #change #discussion

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. ↗

— Guy Debord

#center #chatter #chosen #condemning #consider

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#any #anything #bad #bad men #conventional

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides. ↗

— Tony Blair

#decides #divides #end #goes #his

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#become #going #kind #platform #terrified

It's hard to listen to the news every day and have everyone saying you're the Antichrist. ↗

— Erin Duffy

#day #every #every day #everyone #hard

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.' ↗

— Judy Blume

#book #books #calls #editor #frantically