#las

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#gentle #impression #lasting #man #sad

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#been #before #believed #bible #conflicts

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#cool #entirely #first #first time #going

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#class #family #five #i #runs

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#categorize #class #dismiss #each #gender

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#awareness #because #completely #down #everything

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#between #blinding #conclusion #decent #deduction

If you can remain true to the people who know you the best and not be sidetracked by the flashing lights and glimmering of the cameras, it's like, just being down-to-earth and just kind of staying real. ↗

— Summer Altice

#best #cameras #down-to-earth #flashing #flashing lights

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#been #classic #country #enduring #enough