#ended

When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#audience #concerts #encores #father #happening

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war. ↗

— Barney Ross

#atomic #atomic bombs #bay #bombs #dropped

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#attack #because #impose #kill #many

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#believed #doing #doors #down #ended

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. ↗

— Roger Sherman

#christian #civil #civil rights #denomination #extended

It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#family #thanksgiving #family

Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#boxing-matches #gambloes #life #moments #morningside

It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth. ↗

— David Cecil

#evil #faith #fanaticism #fundamentalism #good-intentions

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. ↗

— Felix Adler

#expended #measure #our #sum

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#career #changed #ended #game #i