#lied

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#any #asked #cottage #could #habitation

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#bearing #dress #found #god #man

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct. ↗

— John Stossel

#been #bullied #bullies #business #camera

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. ↗

— John Strachan

#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#audience #best #brings #cannot #closer

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #most #multiplied #state #then

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. ↗

— William Temple

#applied #else #ever #great #himself

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#lied #people #read #tabloids #who

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it. ↗

— Patrick Troughton

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