#versa

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#closed #compromise #conciliation #conflict #dignity

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#animal #certain #conversation #ever #furniture

Polite conversation is rarely either. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversation #either #polite #rarely

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#adversary #against #deterrent #meant #nuclear

I think people are universal. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i think #people #think #universal

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#boring #create #dangerous #everybody #likes

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#exploration #investigation #live #movements #sources

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#chose #human #i #immortality #mortality

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#kindness #language #universal #universal language #warm

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#conversation #crisp #fresh #lettuce #like