#macy

War is failure of diplomacy. ↗

— John Dingell

#failure #war

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable? ↗

— Phil Donahue

#intimacy #men #millions #millions of men #only

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#brother #brother and sister #colleagues #friends #go

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. ↗

— George Eliot

#done #each #effect #embarrassment #existed

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#austere #between #chastity #christianity #close

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#discussion #drafting #fair #first #first step

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#civil #civil society #democratization #elements #imperatives

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#diplomacy #even #facts #fine #international

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#became #chemical #chemicals #chemistry #enough

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#intimacy #lead #pain #relate #somebody