#cons

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#deadly #decisions #does #except #few

I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#commitment #communities #congress #constituents #enforcement

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#consequences #detective #happens #mine #never

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#greet #important #less #official #ordinary

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#criticized #davis #delved #embraced #fully

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#citizens #conduct #constituents #fellow #fellow citizens

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#constantly #course #state #theory #world

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back. ↗

— Martha Stout

#anger

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#am #being #change #consciousness #contribution

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#astronaut #aviator #because #career #considered