#laced

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#any #believe #bestowed #conservative #conservative party

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#ear #i #instead #kiss #loving

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall. ↗

— Tom Scholz

#knew #mall #replaced #seen #stream

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cannot #crushed #crushing #feel #feels

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#automatic #been #debate #democratic #democratic society

If girlfriends were knees, I'd love to have both of mine replaced. That way, it'd be easier to run around on them. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#girlfriends #knees #replaced #run-around #witty

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#just #know #placed #sometimes #you

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#around #bad #better #cars #computer

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life. ↗

— John James Audubon

#care #caught #charge #commanded #fever

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#exercise #given #god #grave #intellect