#rio

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#destroy #knave #make #makes #patriot

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#followed #freedom #grieving #incredible #lightness

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es! ↗

— Hilary Putnam

#backward #formulas #i #i think #logic

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#another #authors #comparing #discovered #former

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. ↗

— Henry James

#life

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her. ↗

— Martha Quinn

#go #her #hoping #i #line

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again. ↗

— Trevor Rabin

#areas #dark #getting #go #i

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#achieving #arab #consider #idea #long

In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#act #after #america #attack #bin

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#i #laws #lot #member #parliament