#statements

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#automatically #i #people #read #reading

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings. ↗

— John Thorn

#beings #both #children #how #human

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 all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#countries #eurozone #expect #find #help

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

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'. ↗

— Raymond Smullyan

#correctly #critical #i #labeled #ones

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#activities #against #arrested #been #both

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out. ↗

— Suze Orman

#bills #clueless #coming #going #out

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!) ↗

— Maria Semple

#elementary-school #humor #mission-statements #school #education

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere. ↗

— Henry Wade

#bus driver #cab driver #driver #found #had