#recede

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. ↗

— Tiberius

#always #am #any #beware #binding

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#basis #build #coalition #doctrine #embraced

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#does #follows #precede #simplicity

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#arms #insurrection #precedes #thought

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#attainment #disarmament #idea #lasting #lasting peace

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me. ↗

— Elisabeth Rohm

#being #being different #betting #chance #different

I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#anything #colleagues #dangerous #dangerous drug #encourage

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#faith #follow #intelligence #must #never

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#another #draws #honestly #i #life

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#google #important #important things #internet #lawsuits