#rate

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#happens #ignorant #magistrate #obscenity #shock

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#hypothesis #law #natural #working

Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone. ↗

— Keri Russell

#anyone #bar #been #desperately #finding

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. ↗

— Richard Russo

#book #heartbreaking #hilarious #i #i think

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#communicate #companion #concentrate #could #english

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#cannot #copy #copying #enter #good

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#others #politics #right #science #wrong

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#bankers #been #god #going #hell

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cannot #care #centers #community #crisis

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#ability #accurate #area #blanche #carte