#table

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable. ↗

— Eddie Albert

#comfortable #difficult #find #groups #i

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#across #always #being #clear #common

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democracy #form #fragile #government #long

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#although #am #attitude #darken #happening

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. ↗

— John Avlon

#american people #anger #canned #gotten #people

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later. ↗

— Robert Barnes

#because #comfortable #feel #had #i

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#fatalism #inevitable #lazy #man #way

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#charitable #commit #courses #design #discretion

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#about #alexander #almost #back #basis

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. ↗

— Parris Glendening

#depression #dry #low #our #rivers