#orators

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#assume #century #dinners #government #had

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#back #bangladesh #closest #closest friends #collaborators

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. ↗

— Elihu Root

#countries #country #declaring #everything #extreme

There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics. ↗

— Dame Edna Everage

#critics #humor #interior-decorators #murderers #talent

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#consider #extremely #great #i #lifetime

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#accepted #after #attempts #barbarians #canadian

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#collaborators #compliment #find #more #own

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#feel #move #only #orators #people

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family. ↗

— George Porter

#also #collaborators #family #happiness #home

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#hundred #movie #novel #write #you