#eats

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#bank #come #constitute #grenades #hand

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper. ↗

— Larry Niven

#beats #expensive #paper #stack

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#risks #suffer #take #victories #will

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#break #five #groups #hold #house

A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#avoid #best #cannot #comparatively #cost

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#effort #entertained #going #home #house

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#day #decent #decently #gives #good

Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#cable #claims #coalition #come #cut

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. ↗

— Barack Obama

#avian #beyond #come #first #flu