#si

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant. ↗

— James Donald

#committed #compared #crimes #emotionally #far

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #fortitude #goals #impossible #inspirational

I always thought I was singing American folk music. ↗

— Lonnie Donegan

#american #folk #folk music #i #i always

The great art is to endure ↗

— Metternich

#art

All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing. ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#bridget jones #did #give #jones #possible

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#aggressive #back #care #cruel #domestic

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. ↗

— Ariel Dorfman

#fate #power #responsibility #secretary #through

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#art #assisting #discovery #teaching

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#ever #feelings #job #loss #only