#ned

I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#decisive #explained #factor #i #like

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#after #argument #as far as #commitment #day

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love. ↗

— William Shatner

#been #conventions #discovery #filled #happened

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you. ↗

— William Shatner

#find #i #interviews #learn #learned

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine. ↗

— William Shatner

#became #could #imagine #imagined #impossible

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#besides #dirty #get #i #learned

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beginning #beyond #boats #broken #burned

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#bath #battle #blood #concerned #election

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#also #band #being #by the time #did