#cho

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death. ↗

— Alistair Darling

#choke #death #economy #global #global economy

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. ↗

— Duffy Daugherty

#could #except #grades #i #scholar

Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#downright #fun #getting #html #most

Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that's what I heard." "You heard wrong." "And they suspended you for how long?" Antonia innocently asked. "A day. And I apologized. Actually I crawled like a slug and ate dirt," Bree said ruefully. "But that was years ago, and have I pulled a stunt like that again? No, I have not. ↗

— Mary Stanton

#groveling #hot-temper #lawyer #school #sisters

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally. ↗

— Izzeldin Abuelaish

#palestinian-psychology #anger

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago. ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#anyone #choice #herself #himself #i

What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice? ↗

— Dan Deacon

#completely #consider #deliberate #insane #me

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#both #choice #cuts #drastic #education

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#after #elementary #elementary school #gave #i