#ra

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#authoritarian #beacon #cannot #china #democracy

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#existence #let us #moral #us

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#hairs #natural #property #regrets

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past. ↗

— Ruth J. Simmons

#campus #committee #community #designed #discovery

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#painting #portrait #serious #styles #two

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! ↗

— Brian Lumley

#could #critic #literary #loves #only

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#feelings #love #marriage #passion #death

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run. ↗

— Bill Dickey

#great #hit #home #home run #i

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. ↗

— James Dickey

#because #claim #craft #does #done

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. ↗

— Angie Dickinson

#actress #against #being #frank #frank sinatra