#confer

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#conferred #practice #statesmanship

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#annual #attending #comfortable #conferences #debate

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them. ↗

— Vince Cable

#always #because #bit #conference #ever

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#give #government #happiness #men #office

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#conference #done #forward #frame #mayors

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#aspect #aspects #certain #confer #dream

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure. ↗

— John Conyers

#call #ceased #conference #donors #immediately

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#audience #conferences #conventions #field #fights

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#conference #died #ever #foolish #grand

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons. ↗

— Bruce Kent

#call #conference #first #first thing #including