#tempo

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#change #change the world #does #me #must

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ↗

— Walter Scott

#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#fair #flooding #giving #illegal #illegal immigrants

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#contemporary #hard #issues #makes #most

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. ↗

— David Simon

#actually #almost #best #contemporary #inclined

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#broken #commercial #disguised #effect #false

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. ↗

— George Stephen

#bunch #contemporary #disparate #even #horror

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. ↗

— Anthony Eden

#concession #gain #lasting #lasting peace #may

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. ↗

— John Green

#basement #contemporary #contemporary art #curator #decide

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#been #called #certain #children #compassion