#skillful

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#around #better #change #change things #courageous

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. ↗

— Russell Baker

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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#ambition #been #boxing #defense #gibbons

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#extremely #heaven #hell #life #make

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

#homer #lies #other #poets #skillfully

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful. ↗

— Richard Gere

#dalai #dalai lama #even #him #honest

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them. ↗

— Doris Lilly

#get #intoxicating #man #sex #skillful

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed. ↗

— Sallust

#himself #life #live #make #me

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes. ↗

— Emo Philips

#conscious #girl #head #her #i