#statement

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable. ↗

— Martin Fry

#good #groups #i #kind #like

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#before #being #first #gone #had

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement. ↗

— Brent Musburger

#awards #carlos #i #make #object

It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#am #certain #daily #daily life #describe

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations. ↗

— Russell Page

#discerning #eye #free #hint #imagination

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#any #becomes #closed #derived #each

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#aristotle #examining #fewer #him #his

We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward.” … “Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come. ↗

— C.S. Friedman

#great-quote #scifi #understatements #scifi

Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.” If there was an award for understatement, I thought, the Tyr would trounce all competition. ↗

— C.S. Friedman

#scifi #understatements #scifi

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#islam #political #political statement #spiritual #statement