#counter

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#counterparts #elected #elected officials #fed #fed up

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#art #encountered #first #how #i

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters. ↗

— Burke Marshall

#counters #eat #fire #lunch #out

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#human #human love #love #love is #often

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#ago #among #combination #compare #concepts

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#competence #encounter #exciting #exciting thing #government

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things. ↗

— Tom Petty

#does #encountered #heals #i #incredible

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#being #city #encountered #end #ever

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#encountering #i #realising #really #sexism

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#brief #days #encounters #even #experienced