#lain

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#altered #answer #benefits #both #century

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#countless #countless millions #dawn #died #down

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#complexities #did #ended #explain #hughes

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#complaints #end #i #listen #tomorrow

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it. ↗

— Mink Stole

#anyone #big #big adventure #case #chance

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#apologise #back #because #changed #cool

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! ↗

— John Green

#complaining #funny #graduation #humor #john-green

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#change #complain #does #habits #man

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#book #certainly #could #enriched #explain

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#hollywood #me #priests #usually #villains