#fashions

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions. ↗

— Dorothy Height

#between #civil #civil rights #contradiction #did

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#exciting #fashions #intellectual #just #ladies

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#alone #anything #center #detached #fashions

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#aside #fantastic #fashions #first #hold

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#about #back #book #california #class

Fashions fade, style is eternal. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#fade #fashions #style

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#fashion #fashion-sense #change

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#consequences #does #dwelling #fashions #goods

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard. ↗

— John Webster

#blows #devil #fashions #heard #him

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#knows #man #only #present #true