#isi

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#against #among #been #before #care

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#corpses #days #death #derision #division

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#movie #movie actors #television #theatre #you

The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#angeles #away #back #back door #children

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#arabia #dialogue #east #established #exchange

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Talent

#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made. ↗

— Jim Talent

#confidence #creates #decisions #general #greater

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#black #black and white #conditions #equals #live

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#also #another #congress #disaster #handled

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#consider #i #i see #me #mesh