#cons

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design. ↗

— Michael Arad

#anything #arrangement #being #construction #design

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#after #anything #conservative #eighteen #election

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ↗

— Aristotle

#acting #constantly #men #particular #quality

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#again #ambition #consumers #ego #into

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#been #being #big #big influence #constantly

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#actor #as far as #because #comedy #considered

People love conspiracy theories. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#love #people #theories

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#christ #clothed #consider #dies #enriched

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#between #considered #depends #difference #different