Women can never forgive
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry. Edgar Degas
Disarming
What the UN inspectors
What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do. Douglas J. Feith
Gun control has proved
Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail. Doug Bandow
If I could have
If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them… ‘Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ’em all in,’ I would have done it. Dianne Feinstein
To Forget Venice is
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity … Read more
False is the idea
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such … Read more
The laws that forbid
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity…will respect the less important and arbitrary ones… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for … Read more
Romanian? That’s impressive, said
Romanian? That’s impressive, said Jace. Not many people speak it. Do you? Sebastian asked with interest. Not really, Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, ‘Are these snakes poisonous?’ and ‘But you look much too young to be a police … Read more
If every university president
If every university president said, ‘The revenue producing sports: basketball, football – potentially revenue producing at most universities – maybe in a few cases women’s basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no ‘student-athlete’ ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly … Read more
On the morrow of
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. Benito Mussolini