#table

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave god alone. He has enough problems. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#alone #beings #enough #god #held

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#enormous #find #goes #hands #haze

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#books #element #happens #i #into

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#am #ask #government #happiness #having

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country. ↗

— James Woods

#country #go #just #kids #look

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#asking #because #bone #books #calling

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#clean #come #deal #failure #final

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brain #buried #buzzing #diving #humming

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him. ↗

— James Young

#became #change #else #going #great