#semen

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#appeasement #better #between #call #choice

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#life #tolerable #would

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bolton #broken #committee #consolation #endorsement

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#amusement #flat #friendly #keeps #love

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#basement #basic #closet #dark #down

The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#credibility #destroy #endorsement #important #loyal

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. ↗

— Anthony Eden

#concession #gain #lasting #lasting peace #may

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases. ↗

— Charles Edwards

#chance #facts #included #increases #invariably

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. ↗

— John Green

#basement #contemporary #contemporary art #curator #decide

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

#like #looking #media #mirrors #park