#boon

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #approaches #boone #bringing #commended

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree. ↗

— Peter Gay

#boon #creature #disagree #just #kind

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#beg #boon #fate #fears #i

I still can't picture what he does in his every day life when he's not busy with school or misdemeanors or me. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#hannah #business

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. ↗

— Dean Martin

#hands #i #once #pat #right

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#boon #earth #gift #land #often

Good God.” He felt like he’d just finished running the Boston Marathon. How did she do it? How the hell did she do all that every day, and probably a lot more? But just the dinner, the squabbles, the mess, the sheer volume of stuff that needed to be remembered, done, handled with three kids. It was mentally and physically exhausting. Fun, he admitted, but exhausting. And she’d have to get up in the morning, get them up, dressed, fed. Then go to work. After work, she’d replay—basically—what he’d just done. And with all that, she still had to maintain the house and run a business. Did women have superpowers? Regardless, he was sending his mother flowers in the morning. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#the-next-always #business

The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives ↗

— Huey Freeman The Boondocks

#huey-freeman #jesus #the-boondocks #men

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it? ↗

— Peter Washington

#belief-system #madame-blavatsky-s-baboon #mystic #mysticism #religion

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#dollar #free #free trade #i #i think