#cigar

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated. ↗

— Ed Royce

#aggressively #cigarettes #counterfeit #currency #diplomacy

I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#beauty

A man should not measure his success in life by the type of work he does, or by the medals he has won, but by the impact he has had on those around him, especially his family.” -Salvador Ortiz to his son Lazaro ↗

— Mark McGinty

#cigar-maker #salvador-ortiz #family

Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes. ↗

— Jeffrey McDaniel

#love-humor #humor

A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee. These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#cigarettes #coffee #life #r-m-engelhardt #life

I cried, a bit, as a spoke to Belinda on my mobile phone, in a quiet corner, perhaps the only quiet corner in Jaipur. I told her how I'd hoped Paul would read the forward, that he'd read how much I admired his work and how much I admired him, how much I just plain liked him and loved him. But, even as I spoke, I knew: Paul had always known that. He'd seen in on my face every time we met. What made me cry was the obvious, stupid fact that we'd never meet again. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#love

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#fashion #glamorous #glass #hand #memory

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#bette davis #cagney #cigarettes #davis #glamorous

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#already #body #cigarettes #craves #three

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even