#relic

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#cause #continue #derelict #duty #every

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities. ↗

— Timothy West

#authorities #back #buy #council #derelict

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#am #attitude #completely #derelict #extreme

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. ↗

— Bill Maher

#blindly #bragging #cleaner #derelict #duty

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becoming #class #great #great achievements #history

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#corsets #drawer #favourite #film #i

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history. ↗

— Iris Chang

#hang #history #onto #relics #very

Will you no come back again? Better loved you’ll never be, And will you no come back again? ↗

— James Hogg

#james #jocobite-relics #love #love

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#divine #relics #something #treasured