#statements

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time. ↗

— Don McLean

#ask #complex #course #did #had

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay. ↗

— Alfredo Stroessner

#any #here #internal #make #paraguay

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#conduct #fact #his #man #regards

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had. ↗

— Walter Martin

#false #gift #had #in my opinion #made

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#different #different ways #everybody #gets #interpreted

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#compromise #englishman #god #idea #know

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. ↗

— Hans Kung

#declaration #essence #ethic #however #human

Jesus "...It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who do Evil Shit in My Name. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#irony #understatements #humor

The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen. ↗

— Paul Crouch

#comments #confirm #day #did #four

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq. ↗

— Carl Levin

#against #before #clearly #concern #concerning