#those

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#entrusted #even #experience #forms #government

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#category #different #i #language #parents

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#mother #mother tongue #syllables #those #tongue

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#chronology #commentaries #cover #events #fairly

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#best #bit #children #early #family

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those! ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#baritone #because #best #better #class

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#areas #balance #because #being #extent

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. ↗

— John Paul Jones

#inexorable #inflexible #law #nature #risk

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#be true #demand #detail #fit #homogeneity

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#culture #even #feel #great #great power