#owe

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. ↗

— John Cheever

#beauty #give #good #good prose #grief

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. ↗

— John Cheever

#am #comprehend #consciousness #danger #going

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#compassion #fear #grief #hand #others

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#belonged #certainly #control #decision #fact

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#bad #bad guys #bang #bin #captured

Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#anything #doing #drive #else #everyone

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. ↗

— Cher

#absolutely #ahead #around #corner #first

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#begun #capable #century #characterised #development

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#aware #course #each #followed #fully