#press

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#excuse #mental-ward #people #funny

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. ↗

— Manning Marable

#beyond #black #categories #construct #dismantling

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members. ↗

— Guglielmo Marconi

#ago #am #amongst #appreciation #enrolling

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#applying #arsenal #concept #establishment #expressions

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that. ↗

— Katherine Moennig

#always #comparison #enjoys #got #i

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis. ↗

— Maria Monk

#cruel #doubts #entertain #express #francis

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#church #described #emerge #ever #expressed

I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs. ↗

— Michael Newdow

#i #numerous #people #who #willingness

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion. ↗

— Dudley Nichols

#break up #presses #printing #rebellion #up

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#candidates #consideration #express #given #most