#ck

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck. ↗

— Carl Zuckmayer

#half #important #know #life #luck

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#characterized #convict #corrupt #else #embittered

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#buck #clint #clint eastwood #director #eastwood

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#barack obama #i #i think #obama #president

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#america #back #case #control #controls

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attack #attacks #attempted #back #because

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#back #banking #banking system #care #etc

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#car #come #day #during #family

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#calling #certainly #did #i #john