#statement

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#enough #eroticism #individual #justification #me

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#against #always #basic #campaigns #concrete

Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#charlie #charlie sheen #confirming #dating #doctors

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should. ↗

— William Odom

#anything #general #had #high #high office

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#crude #extinguish #humor #knowledge #known

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conflicts #conventional #dealt #disputes #except

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. ↗

— Helena Rubinstein

#fine #makeup #over #remember #rule

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#around #both #brussels #chaotic #concern

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ↗

— Edward Teller

#believe #believes #effective #everyone #fact