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"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #anything #certainly #fact #i

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. ↗

— John Ciardi

#every #father #his #hope #house

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#because #civilization #democracy #him #imprison

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it. ↗

— Gene Robinson

#life #lose #risking #said #save

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. ↗

— John Ciardi

#happen #happened #intelligence #recognizes #will

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. ↗

— John Ciardi

#any #begins #concern #concerns #down

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#distraction #expect #fashion #get #going

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#being #big #big mouth #bumps #child