#les

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#carrying #deny #departed #i #justice

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#believe #decided #done #eternal #everything

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#better #circles #god #graduates #nation

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#cardinal #checked #copy #editing #error

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#america #awaiting #businesses #experience #families

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#between #brass #coffee #film #houses

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

#cold war #cuba #during #even #less

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#better #desk #dinner #dinner party #get

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#friendship #getting #happiness #mere #more