#ems

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#letters #men #other #people #poems

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#determined #domains #gertrude #gertrude stein #literature

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#autonomy #between #characterized #conflict #country

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#kids #learn #lessons #many #need

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

#am #change #happening #i #i am

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#cake #chelsea #eat #funny #griffin

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#came #crowd #during #enjoying #first

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. ↗

— Jean Racine

#among #common #friends #maxim #old

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#allowing #articles #bee #feel #finished