#sol

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#china #constructive #could #course #dialogue

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#breadth #depth #height #linear #narrative

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#each #far #foolish #himself #know

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#difficult #difficult task #distribution #i #infinitely

I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious. ↗

— Jay Carney

#agency #anxious #evaluate #i #independent

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #discouraging #eisenhower #feeling #fell

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#girl #i #i remember #imprinted #isolation

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#career #cry #i #laugh #make

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#cessation #comes #dance #endure #everyone