#arty

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#administration #check #civilization #control #could

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ↗

— Dwight Morrow

#blame #credit #drought #must #opponents

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#between #big #black #civil #civil rights

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#gossip #party #social-disease #artists

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'. ↗

— Albert Wolff

#draw #had #his #learned #made

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#morbid #moriarty #science #sherlock #skull

I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost. ↗

— Hannah Senesh

#last-words #martyrs #poetry #life

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first? ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#martyrdom #life

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#deathers #logic #politics #reason #tea-party

There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#life