#bid

If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try." "Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try. ↗

— Leah Raeder

#love #relationship #taboo #love

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#assurance #benefits #bidding #checks #clear

I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#inspirational #inspirational

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. ↗

— Akihito

#civilisation #japanese #keenly #learned #modernize

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set. ↗

— Jimmy Cannon

#fan #rabid #set #sports #sports fan

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. ↗

— Julian Castro

#because #called #deportation #dreamers #generation

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#pride #riches #them

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#city #host #leave #london #make

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right. ↗

— John Conyers

#court #court decision #decision #documents #forbidden