#stan

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#change #coded #codes #heading #i

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. ↗

— Harry Reid

#common #common ground #compromise #even #extremists

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#circumstances #effect #fact #fixed #influence

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. ↗

— David Remnick

#almost #been #between #crisis #editor

The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#already #becomes #city #corner #demonstrating

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. ↗

— David Remnick

#complex #constant #enough #everything #happy

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more. ↗

— Jules Renard

#i #less #life #love #more

President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women. ↗

— Cecile Richards

#issue #matters #obama #president #president obama

By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#could #curve #differences #events #formed

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#circumstances #contentment #happiness #attitude