#ages

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#easily #know #languages #lend #themselves

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #dead #distant #god #heirs

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#civilizations #early #early stages #great #stages

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#before #better #did #done #former

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#approach #arbitrary #argument #based #between

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence. ↗

— Judy Collins

#dreaming #dreams #give #give me #had

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid. ↗

— John Cornyn

#fact #harry #harry reid #home #like

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#around #carbon #carbon dioxide #case #dioxide

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#always #among #courageous #enthusiastic #fellowship

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#deal #i #lot #marriages #married