#mat

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#after #been #highly #i #i think

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter. ↗

— Sting

#date #ending #irrational #matter #millennium

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose? ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#credible #drama #football #football match #going

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#asian #developments #dramatic #economic #economies

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves. ↗

— Matt Stone

#high school #immature #keep #kind #like

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun. ↗

— Matt Stone

#animated #before #entire #fun #goes

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. ↗

— John Sununu

#better #cage #discipline #matches #politicians

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#best #changes #control #every #exactly

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#already #always #because #coach #control

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how