#ben

❤The world must always keep hope   in their hearts for a better change.   As long as you have life   You have the hope   to change darken nights   into brighter days.   Learn from your mistakes of yesterday.   Live for your dreams today.   Hope for a brighter tomorrow,   For you and humanity. ✌ ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspritional #change

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. ↗

— Tug McGraw

#between #ears #elbow #i #inches

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage. ↗

— Linda McMahon

#country #how #i #i think #increases

Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#going #me #show #too

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#before #benefit #family #never #nothing

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits. ↗

— Alan Nunnelee

#economic #pelosi #says #speaker #stimulus

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#benedict-cumberbatch #bilbo-baggins #film #humor #martin-freeman

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating. ↗

— John Yoo

#benefits #cannot #convention #cooperating #example

Small changes done now would preserve Social Security at full benefit. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#changes #done #full #now #preserve