#lia

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. ↗

— John Olver

#bush #choice #civilian #conduct #cost

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. ↗

— George Osborne

#damage #done #expenses #i #importance

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up! ↗

— Donny Osmond

#amp #artists #average #back #band

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. ↗

— Robert Owen

#courts #folly #found #law #paraphernalia

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#above #affiliations #everybody #imprisoned #own

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#familiar #first #form #had #publisher

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities. ↗

— Paracelsus

#heed #lives #must #patient #peculiarities

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#absolutely #adult #been #brilliant #dinner

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#came #compassion #deep #exalted #high