#vance

I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#greatest #i #impossible #impudence #impudent

Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas – the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code – but because the idiom of life is always changing ↗

— William F. Buckley

#conservatism #persuasion #phrasing #relevance #change

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#genre #imagination #relevance #imagination

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ↗

— Jane Addams

#depends #itself #much #process #result

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#been #candidate #candidates #careful #intentions

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#believe #create #discoveries #doing #extend

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director. ↗

— Jason Patric

#advance #director #earned #haven #i

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ↗

— Walker Percy

#age #because #deranged #doing #faintest

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating. ↗

— William J. Perry

#against #allies #anyone #both #consequences

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action. ↗

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#action #advanced #america #area #construction