#vas

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#begun #believe #big #big government #deal

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#against #cause #discrimination #east #educational

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. ↗

— Katy Perry

#block #chopping #devastating #female #female artists

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#confederacy #dangers #disregarded #general #government

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#cure #deteriorate #devastating #disease #family

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

#future #great #make #only #our

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#alter #any #could #did #germanic

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#canvas #cover #first #go #more

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there! ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#always #canvas #fear #finding #had

So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#human #narrow #vast #wit