#ben

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. ↗

— Pink

#bend #break #elements #favorite #flexible

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. ↗

— William Pollard

#benefit #burden #decision #decision making #format

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#authority #authorizing #benjamin #benjamin franklin #bush

Since Medicare is on track to go bankrupt in 2024, the de facto Obama Medicare plan is to rob it and watch it disappear, leaving future generations without any hope of receiving benefits and today's seniors with an unpredictable future. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#bankrupt #benefits #disappear #facto #future

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all. ↗

— Protagoras

#advice #anyone #athenians #city #else

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#best #bombay #different #even #experiences

Verführung ist eine subtilere, schlauere Art zu herrschen, die der Frau eben. ↗

— Andrea Molesini

#italien #krieg #lieben #sterben #art

I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now. ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#brags #gym #had #his #i

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long. ↗

— Scott Rigell

#congressional #could #decline #declined #every

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#been #benefit #i #i think #looking