#chamber

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur. ↗

— Angela Carter

#the-bloody-chamber #the-tigers-bride #transformation #beauty

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#chamber #compromise #fall #here #i

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#chamber #create #gas #genocide #germany

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#already #chamber #craft #different #different thing

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#also #amount #banker #board #certain

If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#bay #chamber #fall #guantanamo #guantanamo bay

I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy. ↗

— Travis Barker

#chambers #dennis #flashy #i #liked

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#his #mention #mozart #music #opera