#ants

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants. ↗

— Cofer Black

#american #bin #civilians #combatants #considered

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure. ↗

— Danielle Dax

#buzz #destroy #feel #find #get

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. ↗

— Tony Blair

#boss #call #called #civil #civil servants

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #bad #dream #else

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. ↗

— Eubie Blake

#anyone #emotion #envy #friend #got

My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do. ↗

— Steve Blake

#carried #compete #competitive #everything #fish

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#done #government #guarantee #guaranteed #i

I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#i #legend #like #wants #would

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants. ↗

— Lewis Black

#al gore #believe #bush #eisenhower #evolution

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#coming #find #i #i think #instead