#statement

This is life, the one you get so go and have a ball, because the world don't move, to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have my opening statement..sit ubu sit. Good dog. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#opening-statement #peter-griffin #family

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#black #blanket #california #did #fact

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him. ↗

— James Caan

#else #growing #growing up #had #him

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#evidence #false #fiction #find #historians

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #behavior #concern #conscious #himself

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#intelligent #isolated #making #occurrence #people

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. ↗

— Donald Trump

#good #good living #i #just #living

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#complex #fit #long #many #powerpoint

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#declaration #designed #end #extraordinary #government