#over

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#backs #demands #elected #getting #government

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#forbid #governments #interested #iran #like

What brings people down is the same thing over and over. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#down #over #people #same #thing

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#civilization #dying #over #said #taken

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#became #discovery #i #interested #islamic

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beautiful #celebrated #changing #discovered #first

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#ancient greeks #athletes #captivated #caught #decades

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#different #discarded #elements #employ #form

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#bayonet #cannon #city #damage #government

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#being #best #comes #country #earth