#embers

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ↗

— Simon Raven

#class #common #common man #early #faring

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants. ↗

— Pat Sajak

#am #being #concerned #congress #giants

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#family #first #i #jackie #kennedy

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#bear #because #clause #i #leaving

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#being #comprises #equal #every #founded

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#members #more #now #sisters #than

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#already #appeal #been #conversion #converted

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#death #died #humanity #indifferent #inflict

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. ↗

— John Amery

#decision #forward #free #go #government

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #commoner #cooks #members #murder