#ward

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#common people #cowards #dread #empty #laugh

In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined. ↗

— Cyrus Vance

#apply #between #citizens #come #countries

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#awards #because #buyers #comic #comics

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem. ↗

— John Walters

#country #helping #president #president bush #problem

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. ↗

— Tom Waits

#ago #because #bubble #connected #everyone

And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#attitude #better #better man #bury #fathers

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#attitudes #authorities #censored #china #chinese

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#doctrine #europe #failed #forward #france

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#different #rewards #very

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. ↗

— Theophrastus

#appear #cowardice #face #supernatural #superstition