#lines

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#calls #camps #chambers #concentration #detail

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#chambers #concentration #five #gas #gas chambers

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. ↗

— William Penn

#does #enables #endeavors #excites #godliness

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#coherence #disciplines #easily #facts #grant

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#decays #declines #literature #nation

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#avoided #because #bewildered #comedies #feeling

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#away #change #considerable #fighting #friends

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#africa #behind #even #get #lines

Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#communities #demands #even #experienced #financial

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information. ↗

— Ted Rall

#cartoon #headlines #incomplete #information #news