#ria

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ↗

— Gordon W. Allport

#hopeless #laughter #life #many #other

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#contest #devolved #freeing #guilty #injured

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#confines #every #every man #his #man

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#forces #listen #material #own #reading

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#any #citizens #duty #enjoyment #exercise

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#baggage #bring #cannot #genocide #imperial

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#court #court cases #felony #i #juries

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#carefully #comments #conspiratorial #correct #haitian

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#gym #i #vegetarian

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aids #changed #countries #cured #discourse