Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.


James Russell Lowell

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It is a lie.
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual manners for the public good
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Life is a grand party.
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Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.
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Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
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Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
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I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much w...
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Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
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Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a re...
CHARLES DE SAINT-EVREMOND
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
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It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes...
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I've got a good old hot rod here. I'm almost embarrassed. ... Quickest don't win you championships a...
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I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
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God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
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You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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SOURCE UNKNOWN
Politics is compromise.
PADDY ASHDOWN
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TRYON EDWARDS
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often end...
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often en...
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All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive...
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PRINCESS DIANA
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SEBASTIAN PINERA
It wasn't for team-wise, but individual-wise going into the district tournament it was big. Because ...
DANNY O'QUINN
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS
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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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ELLEN KEY
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
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That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reas...
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OM BENIWAL
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It sounds good, which makes for good politics, but it doesn't make much difference.
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I think it will be good for Alabama, Russell shareholders and Russell employees.
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Politics is a good thing!
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You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued...
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This instant is the only time there is.
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I am never upset for the reason I think.
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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Speculation is necessary in business, but in affairs of the heart, it often leads to poor judgement.
SYLVIA DAY
We almost caved the roof in,
GEORGE CLINTON
Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER
Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."

Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE
I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
They are slaves who fear to speak,
For the fallen and the weak.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to pu...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man h...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into head...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
It is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamanti...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the f...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Light is the symbol of truth
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in ma...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrift...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach ful...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The shadow of a mighty name.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Patience revels in misfortunes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL