#wed

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#between #constitution #construe #destroy #dispute

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#access #almost #could #debate #dominated

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#creativity #endowed #every #existence #god

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there." ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#because #fail #failure #felt #got

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers. ↗

— Robert Peel

#evening #had #her #i #majesty

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. ↗

— George Plimpton

#because #being #bit #generation #i

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#been #desperately #dog #i #much

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around. ↗

— Louis Prima

#band #because #brother #followed #his

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#followed #freedom #grieving #incredible #lightness

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#greece #i #i think #living #manifest