#lies

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#civilized #concept #generation #history #implies

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#children #coming #down #families #generation

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#asunder #economics #friends #geography #god

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#age #children #college #compared #families

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. ↗

— Henry Ford

#angle #any #get #lies #other

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#difficulty #escaping #ideas #lies #much

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#block #implies #opposition #phrase #same

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head. ↗

— Persis Khambatta

#artist #butterflies #friend #had #head

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this? ↗

— Imran Khan

#children #civilised #did #doing #eliminate

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs. ↗

— Salman Khan

#big #big screen #characters #dvds #enthusiasm