#ace

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#billion #came #coast #except #federal

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff. ↗

— James Lankford

#different #different things #inherently #kind #obvious

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#economic #elusive #environment #improve #iraq

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. ↗

— Jonathan Larson

#bond #community #dangerous #day #death

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place. ↗

— Yusef Lateef

#body #higher #hold #looks #mind

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#both #christ #cosmic #embraces #entire

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. ↗

— William Laud

#church #churches #down #heads #held

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it. ↗

— Stan Laurel

#fella #had #i #just #like

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate. ↗

— Martin Lawrence

#go #i #me #meditate #off

Love has many faces. ↗

— Kelly LeBrock

#love #many