#de

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate. ↗

— Martin Lawrence

#go #i #me #meditate #off

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#alas #architecture #bad #come #comes

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#block #divided #dock #left #men

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our attitude towards the fearful necessity of war ought to be stern. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war and not a game. Otherwise, war is a favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous... ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#attitude

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. ↗

— Romeo LeBlanc

#attitudes #become #canada #centuries #debt

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell. ↗

— Irving Layton

#canadians #consider #dante #down #hell

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. ↗

— Irving Layton

#canada #elliott #last #leader #pierre

Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#suicide #death

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. ↗

— Jack Layton

#cancer #defeat #discouraged #gone #had

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#forgiveness #joke #tales #forgiveness