#tact

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#always #anything #avoid #classify #contact

I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#big problem #feel #i #i feel #problem

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact. ↗

— Howard Carter

#before #entrance #evidence #here #intact

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#communism #communist #firmly #fought #freedom

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#common #contact #din #horrible #i

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#again #art #counts #days #driving

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#arise #chaotic #come #contact #fluctuations

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#atlantic #contact #get #great #i

I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better. ↗

— Jimmy Cliff

#i #intact #lot #myself #over

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes. ↗

— Brian Clough

#barely #crap #games #how #know