#tru

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#contemplation #institution #introspection #national #place

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#death #delay #gun #gun control #guns

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#know #more #than #think #you

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. ↗

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

#chief #dabble #easiest #excellence #fine

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#free #make #miserable #set #truth

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#correct #errors #i #interested #like

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#darkest #dawn #poetry #politics #sometimes

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #i think #instrumental #like #play

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#cold #equally #opposite #said #sneezed

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#after #anything #awful #confess #ever