#mos

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#actually #by the time #earning #father #going

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#belongs #challenge #everyone #everything #greatest

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#because #character #discovery #draw #feel

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#go #guitar #i #mean #most

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#i think #most #nobody #people #think

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#attend #being #horrible #imagination #liberty

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#even #false #intelligence #many #more

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse. ↗

— Joe Clark

#bad #captions #closed #course #create

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#become #children #invariably #treated #who