#con

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#contend #devours #everything #familiarity #incessantly

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#empire #europe #evident #gain #maintain

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#cold #convenience #emotional #house #piece

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#economics

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#because #confidence #conversations #easily #help

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#demand #economy #electricity #great #growing

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#agreements #between #condemning #especially #forms

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. ↗

— Bud Abbott

#i #know #louis #now #second

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bullets #by the time #dodging #end #english

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#evil #hell #neither #neoconservatives #new