“Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.”
Source: Along for the Ride
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On a child doing homework near the family’s television set, in Roger’s Version (1986)
Stéphane Mallarmé.
The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)
It, and Other Stories (1927), ch. 1, p. 10.
The Story of Mme. NN or Lady N—'s Story or A Lady's Story (1887)
As quoted in The Meaning of Life : According to the Great and the Good (2007) edited by Richard T. Kinnier.
1970s and later
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter Nine: Appetite, Disappointment, Leningrad
“He can be a charming man, but he can be quite nasty too. Because this is what he does.”
About Marco van Basten after the fall-out with Mark van Bommel
“The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.”
1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)
Context: It was with the deepest regret that the Executive found the duty of employing the war power in defense of the Government forced upon him. He could but perform this duty or surrender the existence of the Government. No compromise by public servants could in this case be a cure; not that compromises are not often proper, but that no popular government can long survive a marked precedent that those who carry an election can only save the government from immediate destruction by giving up the main point upon which the people gave the election. The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.