#prom

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal. ↗

— Clare Short

#aid #bear #brought #enormous #enormous pressure

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody. ↗

— David Shuster

#been #bill #channel #comes #coverage

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#endings #excellent #express #happy #joint

We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#british #british people #contract #enabling #ensure

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#bloody #effort #even #every #forms

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#assigned #being #faiths #follows #mythology

After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#acting #after #arc #being #character

We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings. ↗

— John W. Snow

#also #associated #domestic #generate #initiative

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies. ↗

— Tony Snow

#because #bush #dictatorships #free #free societies

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#diseases #fear #ideologies #interest #material