#edward

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen. ↗

— Kim Weston

#around #dad #edward #family #happen

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot . ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#elizabeth #fancy #footwork #get #going

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #edward-said #humility #london #palestine

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#edward #love #love

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#eagle #edward #first-rate #got #guy

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels. ↗

— David Cameron

#each #edward #excruciating #heath #levels

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#background #because #change #dramatic #dramatic change

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#everyone #hate #i #image #me

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #calling #doll #edwardian #features