#ria

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#archaeology #aspect #get #historian #i

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted. ↗

— Titus Livius

#better #brought #guilty #man #should

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#big picture #focused #forward #i #just

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#covering #criminal #i #like #murder

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

#cathedrals #criteria #existence #justify #modern

I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#expect #i #meat #other #people

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone. ↗

— Julie London

#anything #build #difficult #difficult things #i

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing. ↗

— LaToya London

#ballad #big #bring #came #carey