#tact

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. ↗

— Henry Villard

#contact #got #had #him #i

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#begin #broken #homes #i #i can

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding. ↗

— John Warnock

#avenues #contact #fact #fault #gain

It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story came about. And that was my first time ever meeting, or speaking, to Dr. Goldman. ↗

— Kelli White

#came #contacted #dr #ever #first

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chicken #direction #down #easy #edited

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#any #beauty #belief #best #currency

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#been #black #blue #contacts #furniture

Last week I placed a hand-written sign in front of my neighborhood that read, “Lost Mustache. Please do not feed. If found, contact Mouth,” and I left my phone number. Nobody’s called. Perhaps the neighborhood cat lady took it in and is petting it on her lap at this very moment. Ah, but that’s life, no?
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cat-lady #cats #contact #lap #life

I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#friends #relationships #tact #behavior

So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government. ↗

— Betty Hill

#any #contacts #government #organizations #strictly