#vas

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#choose #deem #deems #him #invade

A daydream is an evasion. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#evasion

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#art #art college #attractive #canvas #college

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#big #canvas #challenge #could #deliberately

'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me. ↗

— Michael Irvin

#couple #devastating #found #friend #gone

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#cgi #labor #majority #vast #vast majority

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#cheaper #corporate #devastate #feature #global

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. ↗

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

#blank canvas #canvas #full #jazz #possibilities

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. ↗

— James Jeans

#closely #grains #inside #more #packed

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#behooves #case #change #circumstances #conscience