#con

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#away #best #convince #could #failed

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#archaic #britain #change #determined #i

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced

As the master creators on this planet, we can improve conditions for all and learn greater respect for others. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#respecting-others #thoughts-on-life #attitude

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#contemplation #creativity #days #eat #expression

Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #consumed #defense #designs #divert

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#cannot #conditioned #consensus #day #force

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. ↗

— Neil Peart

#condition #even #future #get #life

My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#about #america #convictions #enjoy #feeling