#tory

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#dry #emotionally #even #inaccurate #more

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#change #course #delivered #effective #history

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#history #only #proletariat #revolution #school

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there. ↗

— David Lynch

#characters #more #ongoing #opportunity #provides

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. ↗

— David Lynch

#both #concrete #hold #me #really

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#any #building #gone #had #history

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#england #history #i #ireland #kept

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#become #defeat #either #every #everything

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#object #oratory #persuasion #truth