#nit

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did. ↗

— Adele

#deeper #definitely #did #drew #first

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions. ↗

— Sheldon Adelson

#humanitarian #i #i see #legacy #pay

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message. ↗

— Moustapha Akkad

#because #blame #christianity #crusades #did

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#approached #felt #get #go #i

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#argue #average #could #course #definitely

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#fear #in my opinion #master #morally #obliged

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#cannot #cognitive #contain #element #mental

Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent.It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#politics-of-the-united-states #intelligence

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. ↗

— George Allen

#apology #failure #formal #heartfelt #history

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously. ↗

— Joan Allen

#allowed #angry #even #gave #happy