#id

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#anomaly #attempting #complete #exist #governments

I haven't accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that's why I'm still playing. I just know that I still have something left inside of me to accomplish, and I don't know exactly what that is. Hopefully, I'll know one day soon. ↗

— Mary Pierce

#accomplished #career #day #everything #exactly

I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more. ↗

— Alessandro Del Piero

#ask #coincide #cup #forget #great

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.' ↗

— Jimmy Piersall

#die #doctor #how #i #left

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#did #done #dream #film #friend

Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#intelligence

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration ↗

— Neil Postman

#individuality #typography #age

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. ↗

— Witold Pilecki

#arrested #ask #carried #deciding #had

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#been #called #exactly #flying #idiot