#rope

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#about #actor #actress #art #audience

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#act #authorization #barriers #breaking #congress

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#confirm #our #propensity #reality #share

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#extract #good #human #human nature #inherent

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#away #breaks #floor #hit #human

I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour. ↗

— Percy Heath

#died #europe #go #had #i

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#european #generation #innocence #joined #life

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#europe #lights #nothing #torch #war

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#best #billion #dollars #europe #gross

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#beginning #behaviour #chance #end #french