#written

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#constitution #elastic #ever #government #itself

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#largely #revelation #symbols #written

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#agricultural #because #cable #censors #confirm

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written. ↗

— Ted Shawn

#better #communicates #dance #deepest #emotions

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on. ↗

— Sam Goldwyn

#paper #verbal #worth #written

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#before #danger #had #him #i

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#bill #bill of rights #first #first amendment #freedom

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#book #christianity #clergyman #converted #did

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

#art #england #forty #forty years #kind