#lit

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#everything #falsehood #little #passes #spoken

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#also #america #any #attack #brutal

The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#american #american people #ask #burden #carry

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country. ↗

— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

#catch #circumstance #country #form #get

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#better #cases #come #countries #crisis

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [Letter, November 1856] ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#lessons #life #mortality #time #true

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#am #best #composers #enormously #everything

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #jesus

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#candidates #give #males #only #percent