#written

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#content #each #memorable #poet #three

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. ↗

— Henry Adams

#am #anyone #faith #him #history

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. ↗

— John Bolton

#american #because #chain #command #could

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. ↗

— Anacharsis

#easily #hold #laws #like #only

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#large #letters #miracles #same #see

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? ↗

— Bill Willingham

#fantasy-fiction #unwritten-preface #fantasy-fiction

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#difficult #each #every #exciting #i

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#anything #belong #belongs #blue #blue sky

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#component #fire #people #wondered #written