#aw

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#already #away #business #could #get

America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. ↗

— Claire Wolfe

#awkward #bastards #early #late #shoot

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#control #dependent #destiny #determines #extent

I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#better #cannot #country #day #did

As an animal lover, I don’t like zoos. I feel the only creatures that should be caged behind bars are politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers. And rapists, but I’ve already listed that three times. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #lawyers #politicians #politics

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine II

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #humiliating #law #mainly #means

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#asserted #authority #children #during #endeavoured

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#big business #break #business #easily #impunity

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. ↗

— Samuel Chase

#determine #facts #jury #law #right