#lit

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#i #know #largely #makes #me

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#allows #behind #cape #closed #committee

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#forget #lincoln #most #politician #professional

You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#cover #flashy #glitzy #i #i love

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. ↗

— George Byron

#i #i am #intentions #little #my own

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. ↗

— Lord Byron

#being #care #fame #know #known

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism. Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return. ↗

— Alistair Urquhart

#memoir #military-history #world-war-ii #death

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#classic #literature #modern #newest #oldest

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn. ↗

— Scott Caan

#create #heads #i #little #make

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is. ↗

— Vince Cable

#challenge #class #explain #government #how