#han

The ballot is stronger than bullets. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#bullets #stronger #than

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arab #diminish #distort #else #hands

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#because #far #how #leadership #learn

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. ↗

— Stephen King

#basic #basic elements #change #choose #elements

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#government #most #prevent #rather #than

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#bird #cage #even #hurts #look

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. ↗

— David Sedaris

#case #change #ever #figure #got

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. ↗

— David Sedaris

#connor #dialect #even #should #than

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#clock #conservative #goldwater #i #income