#ted

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow. ↗

— Steve Allen

#capital punishment #guide #half #killed #matter

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#children #give #had #hardest #having

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened. ↗

— Morley Safer

#control #cover #financial #happened #influence

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.' ↗

— William Safire

#delight #e-mail #electronic #got #into

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live. ↗

— Herodotus

#the-self-creating-universe #inspirational

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#blood #freedom #nations #period #post-war

We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting. ↗

— Roger Waters

#contracted #enough #i #interesting #make

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste. ↗

— Gene Ween

#absolutely not #decision #haste #however #interpreted