#ect

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#after #any #debt #disrespectful #evening

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#imperfections #beauty

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power. ↗

— Xun Zi

#disgrace #honor #inner #must #power

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#always #convictions #doubt #important #intellect

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#aimed #casualties #dealt #election #freedom

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. ↗

— Hugo Gernsback

#clouds #description #detective #methods #modern

I have selective hearing. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#i #selective

If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#architectural #beautiful #before #cut #different

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#always #architect #been #education #had