#session

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy. ↗

— Edward Everett

#before #congress #ferocious #frenzy #influence

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#come #first #had #i #know

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #british #culture #existing #focusing

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. ↗

— Bruce Feirstein

#austen #fortune #jane #jane austen #man

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#chance #considered #differ #does #goods

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. ↗

— Felix Adler

#been #commercial #commercial world #craving #desire

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#gaza #i #level #most #my own

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#asylum #conversation #cut #each #every

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#culture #having #heavy #into #paid

Dancing is my obsession. My life. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#life #my life #obsession