#versa

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#attacks #continued #country #draws #ensure

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#draft #instrument #most #often #third

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. ↗

— Adam Brody

#boring #care #compares #conversation #how

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. ↗

— David Bruce

#conversations #derived #entirely #health #knowledge

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#becomes #brain #conversations #direction #faculties

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#director #go-ahead #good #good story #i

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#beyond #desire #every #income #innate

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#building #consists #conversation #man #observation

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. ↗

— Judith Wright

#deepest #emotions #expression #feelings #honored