#aw

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. ↗

— George Eliot

#done #each #effect #embarrassment #existed

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#banker #bus #containing #crime #fare

Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!' ↗

— John Boehner

#bill #buzz #healthcare #healthcare bill #interests

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#closed #dead #eyes #good #his

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#certain #far #laws #mathematics #reality

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. ↗

— John Boehner

#children #emphasized #family #foundation #importance

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away. ↗

— John Boehner

#during #go #go away #hoped #leaders

I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition. ↗

— John Boehner

#books #bring #condition #crisis #end

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#behind #discovery #elemental #feeling #helped

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#everyday #everyday life #happened #law #life