#air

I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair. ↗

— Evan Thomas

#blair #comparison #did #disappear #down

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person. ↗

— Virgil

#beautiful #beautiful person #even #fairer #person

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#capacity #commonwealth #constitution #created #exercise

By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#became #by the time #chairman #deal #feeling

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. ↗

— Thucydides

#brilliant #charge #expect #frequently #men

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done? ↗

— Arthur Golden

#eat #geisha #hair #how #i

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission. ↗

— James Tobin

#city #commission #haven #i #new

I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war. ↗

— Victoria Toensing

#away #because #everything #go #had

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#arousing #boy #chamber #day #dead

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. ↗

— Mel Torme

#began #dad #did #fans #film