#th

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#athens #century #democracies #just #later

The only things you regret are the things you don't do. ↗

— Michael Curtiz

#regret #things #you

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it. ↗

— Lord Dunsany

#experience #getting-older #youth #age

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#hard work #having #i #i think #itself

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent. ↗

— John Cusack

#british #employing #intelligent #keep #like

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#capitol #duty #hear #house #i

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that. ↗

— Jill Dando

#friends #go #how #like #limit

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#conduct #democracy #desire #ever #feel

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done. ↗

— Peter Cushing

#come #done #fame #famous #got

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life. ↗

— Peter Cushing

#asking #being #day #every #every day