#versa

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#asked #because #bedside #could #dad

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.' ↗

— Mitt Romney

#bomber #conversation #our #remain #right

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#character #conversation #habitually #learned #man

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#been #connected #empress #general #general sense

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

#creeds #eternal #gospel #human #ideologies

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

#attention #conversation #critic #even #i

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#conversation #instead #lengthens #merely #mind

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. ↗

— Steve Israel

#america #benefit #current #over #poverty

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested. ↗

— Steve Israel

#guarantee #i #i believe #i believe that #means

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. ↗

— William James

#business #cannot #convenience #does #exclusively