#fr

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#assumed #constitutional #curb #decline #efforts

Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends. ↗

— Giovanni Giolitti

#friends #interpreted #laws #only #regards

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. ↗

— Delphine de Girardin

#forgot #promises #proof #republic #suffrage

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about. ↗

— William Glasser

#about #allowed #any #asked #being

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#bits #carry #character #character actor #come

Sometimes I ask myself, "Do I have the courage to do the right thing when it matters most?" And that answer, I'm afraid, is silence. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#courage #funny #humor #silence #courage

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#philosophical #wisdom #friendship

Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#monoculture #thoughts-on-life #experience

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#friends #friendship #humor #math #piglet