#river

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#anything #because #him #his #i

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#curse #define #drivers #each #happens

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. ↗

— Li Peng

#chinese #close #enjoyed #exchanges #friendly

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ↗

— Ross Perot

#activist #cleans #dirty #man #river

Is that your final answer? Here in New York garbage men, bus drivers, taxi cab drivers, bus drivers, whoever, you know, people just yell it out to me. So that was a lot of fun. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#bus #cab #drivers #final #final answer

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#lacks #mourning #own #river #see

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#anything #best-seller #certain #copies #damn

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#ends #journey #mean #means #my journey

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#beset #channel #conjecture #distance #explore

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#down #drink #i #i see #much