#not

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#beloved #christianity #clergy #country #degree

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#cheek #come #drunk #ever #face

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#bilingual #different #fair #favourite #foreign

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#avoid #calamity #ills #learn #see

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#cannot #forgive #himself #how #unhappy

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#afraid #against #being #being afraid #cannot

I definitely had a top-notch education. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#education #had #i #top-notch

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#become #come #dark #door #go

They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#absolutely nothing #country #democratic #democratic party #entrance