#pal

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#avenue #hands #hired #horror #i

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. ↗

— Horace

#first #good #good sense #good writing #parent

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. ↗

— Horace

#hut #impartial #kings #knocks #pale

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief. ↗

— John Howard

#because #belief #beyond #could #executed

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#apprehensive #humor #make #only #palatable

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#approved #because #being #bring #children

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. ↗

— David Hume

#principals #result #stereotyped #system

The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. ↗

— Gareth J. Nelson

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils