#thorough

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#corruption #eliminate #exist #foundations #motivations

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#been #deep #ever #i #i think

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'. ↗

— Peter Porter

#called #country #distortion #established #heritage

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ↗

— Francis Drake

#beginning #continuing #end #finished #glory

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#creative #creative artist #disciplined #i #meticulous

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#because #bloodstream #break #commit #commitment

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ↗

— John Locke

#fence #knowledge #only #thorough #thorough knowledge

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#citizen #civilisation #difficult #europe #evidence

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained