#tate

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#england #graves #met #rule #stately

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. ↗

— Dick Armey

#companies #devastate #everyone #farm #farmers

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#back #casualties #challenge #civilian #civilian casualties

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#fiction #irritates #life #perfection #well

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#constitutional #general #man #opinions #statesman

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that. ↗

— Donovan Bailey

#body #brain #burnt #canada #clients

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#duty #educate #education #people #right

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#due #evidence #falling #inadequate #into

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#apparently #becomes #final #finished #fixed

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#away #back #bring #desire #fading