#settled

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#destroyed #disputes #establishing #force #foundation

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#continent #easy #imported #luxury #necessity

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America. ↗

— John Lawson

#been #corn #difficult #fruitfulness #grain

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#eating #i #incorrect #keeps #me

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#administration #darkness #dawn #democracy #emanated

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#environment #i #i was born #nation #officially

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#down #giggle #great #here #humour