#ear

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#capital #clear #consider #did #disaster

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. ↗

— Julian Assange

#benefit #clear #conducted #conducting #how

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#dance #get #like #memorable #right

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#face #good #good manners #hardest #job

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#college education #education #five #knowledge #learn

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#american society #heart #i #know #lead

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#brow #brown #clean #committee #conventions

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#clues #continue #could #develop #fascinating

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#fools #incumbents #rush #tread #where

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing. ↗

— John Bigelow

#batteries #charge #commence #dawn #early