#aria

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. ↗

— Les Brown

#come #compelling #enough #hunger #invariably

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. ↗

— Harry Browne

#coming #country #death #fear #free

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bloc #christians #decades #evangelical #ignored

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state. ↗

— John le Carre

#big difference #difference #state #totalitarian #totalitarian state

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. ↗

— John le Carre

#happen #held #impunity #killed #states

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? ↗

— Angela Carter

#bad #barbarians #blame #destroyed #then

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#costume #couple #dressed #got #had

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#electricity #humanity #justice #love #me

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#american #aria #believe #could #cuss

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#been #child #company #experience #i