#wards

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts. ↗

— George Osborne

#dealing #debts #everyone #had #make

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#awards #because #ceremonies #even #go

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#ask #before #both #feel #get

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#reactionary #walking

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#afterwards #blood #country #deal #enough

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #downwards #ever #i #since

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#certain #designer #dress #everyone #into

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#cowards #generally #greatest #heroes #known

In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#began #biological #compelling #concern #extent