#about

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#always #am #because #i #i am

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#away #being #big #big problem #cases

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#affairs #always #bad #britain #country

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him. ↗

— John Thaw

#being #description #detective #good #him

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#allow #been #believe #had #i

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#afraid #away #because #been #before

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#be patient #contracts #decided #either #expect

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#backs #incredibly #like #photographed #sand

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #amazing #anyone #anything #apart

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anyway #argue #bees #best #calculate