#result

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#election #me #party #result #victory

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#chains-of-events #commonplaces-of-existence #cross-purposes #fiction #on-fiction

Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#also #america #another #being #british

An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition. ↗

— Nestor Kirchner

#cannot #imposition #result

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. ↗

— Zalmay Khalilzad

#counting #election #fair #free #important

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result. ↗

— Anselm Kiefer

#between #difference #first #forget #me

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy? ↗

— Robert Lanza

#breakthroughs #bush #change #his #how

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#intentions #results #art

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#climate #earth #earthquakes #frequent #ground

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#absurdly #am #amp #artistic #been