#sf

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#asked #belief #drifting #except #fifties

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#deal #five #four #great #great deal

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision. ↗

— Rafik Hariri

#change #government #lebanese #new #new government

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes. ↗

— Jane Harman

#bill #committee #congress #democrat #democrats

Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family. ↗

— Thomas Vilsack

#best #big #bold #family #grow

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#case #circumstances #england #first #gradually

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#been #come #countries #foreign #foreign countries

I wanted to be successful, not famous. ↗

— George Harrison

#i #successful #wanted

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

#chief #complacent #knowledge #present #pursuit