#be

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#care #i #job #label #who

Ethics in government has always been important to me. ↗

— Chris Bell

#been #ethics #government #important #me

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas. ↗

— Chris Bell

#because #complaint #congressional #corruption #delay

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it. ↗

— Chris Bell

#beat #competition #i #no problem #out

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#also #becomes #lives #longer #mathematics

I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#envelope #gaga #i #lady #like

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

Shepley stomped into the apartment and slammed the door behind him. “She’s fucking impossible!” I kissed Travis on the cheek. “That’s my cue.” “Good luck,” Travis said. I slid in beside America, and she huffed. “He’s fucking impossible! ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#funny-couples #humorus-fights #ironic #laugh-out-loud #love

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#around #baseball #going #granted #kind