#fr

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#battles #enough #every #expect #fight

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#against #because #even #feel #free

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. ↗

— Edmond About

#been #conversation #correspondence #danger #enlightened

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#damned #day #discover #grown #might

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#britain #century #countries #every #france

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#come #crowded #death #friends #gloom

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside. ↗

— Rosanna Arquette

#artists #because #criticise #criticism #critics

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#feel #from time to time #makes #me #must

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#both #dignity #enemy #friendship #hand

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#conduct #council #declarations #degree #disposition