#them

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#correspondents #else #i #newspaper #newspapers

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#bother #elements #fight #get #i

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dust #forgets #gloom #god #out

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#extremism #fight #governments #israel #logic

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda. ↗

— Jim Talent

#also #come #conservative #exactly #explain

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living. ↗

— Gay Talese

#describe #dialogue #i #living #move

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#hearts #like #love #people #selves

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#again #fishing #friend #good #good friend

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#acting #advice #cynical #direction #get

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. ↗

— Amy Tan

#had #i #novel #second #seven