#age

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#memory #objectivity #age

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#i #over #reporting #tragedy #triumph

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#age

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be! ↗

— Alan Vega

#ago #austin #club #country #die

Be the man she can depend on, not the man that constantly lets her down. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#dependence #love #marriage #relationship-advice #relationships

I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#bit #couple #difference #even #gone

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#battery #brigade #came #clock #confusion

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#first #happened #i #marriage #rebound

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#concept #done #europe #ford #had