#ions

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? ↗

— Lord Byron

#changed #got #how #made #opinions

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud. ↗

— David Cameron

#back #cut #damaging #decisions #difficult

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#direction #discrete #political #problems #solutions

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ↗

— Richard Burton

#anything #convinced #himself #i #i am

It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#because #better #interesting #me #movies

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hurricane #loves #middle #middle age #opera

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#marriage #relationships #beauty

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cherish #connections #friends #friends and family #human

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#blue #change #conventions #each #face

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#any #college #college life #dad #embarrass