Placing Quotes
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In giving you these tapes, blemishes and all, I am placing my trust in the basic fairness of the American people.
— 1974 National address, 30 May, on relinquishing the Watergate tapes after the House Judiciary Committee warned him that refusal 'might constitute a ground for impeachment'.
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis.By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.
D(onald) M(itchell) Thomas— 1981TheWhite Hotel, author's note.
It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be hawking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.
Ernest Bevin— Labour Party Annual Conference Report 1935
— Speech to the Labour Party conference, 1 October 1935, criticising George Lansbury. Lansbury, a pacifist, was publicly agonising about the need to confront fascist Italy over Abyssinia; Bevin's speech convinced the conference to back sanctions, and when the vote went against him, Lansbury resigned as Leader of the Labour Party.
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.
murray rothbard— Egalitarianism and the Elites (1995)
For conversation well endued;She calls it witty to be rude;And, placing raillery in railing,Will tell aloud your greatest failing.
jonathan swift— The Furniture of a Woman's Mind (1727)
I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections — to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year.
elizabeth taylor— Elizabeth Taylor : An informal memoir (1965)
Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.
orson scott card— Chapter 19 (Alvin Journeyman (1995))
By placing these people with foreign ideas in camps, German blood was saved. Would it have been better to have a civil war?
karl dönitz— To Leon Goldensohn, May 2, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.
jeanne marie bouvier de la motte guyon— P. 193. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
My countrymen, as of the twenty-third of this month, I signed Proclamation #1081 placing the entire Philippines under Martial Law.
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos— Televised speech on the proclamation of Martial Law (September 21, 1972)
If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.
ilana mercer— “Conned About Marriage, Constitution and States’ Rights”, WorldNetDaily.com, January 23, 2014
...Orissa government had taken the decision for placing the capital at Bhubaneshwar in September 1946...Dr. H Otto Koenigsberger, a German Jew, was first mentioned as a town planner, who had fled Germany and arrived in India at the invitation of Diwan (Chief Minister) Mirza Ismail of Mysore in 1939.
— Ravi Kalia, in Bhubaneswar: From a Temple Town to a Capital City (1994), p.124
A conceptual model is one which reflects reality by placing words which are concepts into the model in the same way that the model aeroplane builder puts wings, a fuselage, and a cockpit together.
— Lynn Basford, ?Oliver Slevin (2003) Theory and Practice of Nursing: An Integrated Approach to Caring Practice p. 260
Herschel has noticed how the Stagirite obstructed the progress of astronomy by not identifying celestial with terrestrial mechanics, but laying down the principle that celestial motions were regulated by peculiar laws, thus placing them entirely without the pale of experimental research, while at the same time the progress of mechanics was impeded by the [his] assumption of natural and unnatural motions.
— George Henry Lewes (1864) Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science, Ch.7 Aristotle's Physics, Meteorology, and Mechanics
If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.
— “Conned About Marriage, Constitution and States’ Rights”, WorldNetDaily.com, January 23, 2014
The test as to whether the amendment should be allowed is whether or not the defendants can amend without placing the plaintiff in such a position that he cannot be recouped, as it were, by any allowance of costs or otherwise.
— Pollock, B., Steward v. Metropolitan Tramways Co. (1885), 16 Q. B. D. 180.
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
Euripides— Fragment.
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.
— D. M. Thomas (1981) The White Hotel, Author's Note.
Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word .
— Madame Guyon, p. 193. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Originally all of Wikipedia was at the .com address. Bomis, the company owned by Wikipedia patron Jimbo Wales, hoped to make Wikipedia profitable, or at least cover the costs of operation, so it was at least theoretically a commercial operation. At one point, Jimbo was planning on placing unobtrusive advertisements on Wikipedia, but that plan has since been completely abandoned.
— Wikipedia overview page description, cited in — Seth Finkelstein (September 24, 2008). "Wikipedia isn't about human potential, whatever Wales says". The Guardian. Retrieved on December 20, 2013.
A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.
— Robertson Davies in Conversations.
placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.
thales— W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1893, 1925)
