#it

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#objects #politics #skilled #use

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there! ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#bush #get #going #kissing #like

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #consumed #defense #designs #divert

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#cannot #conditioned #consensus #day #force

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#avoid #away #behavior #entity #give

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept. ↗

— Frances Hardinge

#twitter-quotes #twitter

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there." ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#because #fail #failure #felt #got

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. ↗

— Neil Peart

#condition #even #future #get #life

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing. ↗

— Annie Smith Peck

#clothing #deal #endurance #good #good deal

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. ↗

— Robert Peel

#few #least #me #politics #seem