#prop

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#action #appropriate #appropriate time #been #exit

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#becoming #cannot #cloak #commitment #continuing

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#attain #case #comparing #immense #light

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#common #common man #complicated #few #happiness

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ↗

— Anais Nin

#expands #life #proportion #shrinks

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#amendment #basis #clear #constitution #convincing

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#any #architect #asking #begun #comes

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles. ↗

— Don Nickles

#governments #happen #i #local #local governments

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#earn #exact #idly #justly #our

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#failure #likely #material #might #operation