#rope

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ↗

— Plautus

#conduct #death #delay #fangs #grinning

The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe. ↗

— John Prescott

#britain #choice #europe #might #normally

I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#america #been #bit #china #east

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas. ↗

— John Redwood

#being #bureaucracy #concern #core #democracy

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#europe #large #out #six #small

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. ↗

— Lou Reed

#been #big #big thing #chord #how

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#doing #first #foreign #give #greatest

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#attention #began #experiments #first #gamma

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#demands #effort #especially #every #frame

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#country #cultural #culture #deep #dimension