#peaks

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#class #concern #democratic #democratic party #economic

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#anxious #being #come #death #duty

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally. ↗

— Steve Hackett

#form #i #i think #ideally #itself

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ↗

— Homer

#gates #hateful #heart #hides #his

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#anyway #black #blues #element #everybody

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#explain #itself #muddle #never #never explain

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical. ↗

— Loretta Swit

#character #logical #shirley #speaks #thinks

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#certain #conscience #god #good #him

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#any #attempting #consider #devil #enemy

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#dumb #genius #hero #seldom #speaks