#owe

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral. ↗

— David Letterman

#big #confusing #dead #debate #funeral

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason. ↗

— Edward Levi

#conceives #dedicated #intellect #itself #power

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others. ↗

— Philip Levine

#find #god #i #live #maybe

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#great #great power #much #necessarily #power

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#away #awe #back #been #being

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ↗

— C. Day Lewis

#earth #expresses #good #however #just

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#disenchanted #enchantments #gives #love #miracles

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#exercised #instrument #man #men #nature

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#areas #cheat #cheats #day #does

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#aspired #better #better life #class #classes