#cup

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#america #any #assume #because #current

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#being pregnant #hazard #occupational #pregnant #wife

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#died #i #into #just #myself

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future". ↗

— Henry M. Wriston

#dreams #economics #education #jobs #occupations

Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup. ↗

— Sidney Crosby

#cup #goal #great #honors #individual

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#candidate #catering #first #first of all #going

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#confess #cup #easier #front #jury

I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so long as I am no trouble to any one I have a right to do as I like. I know I ought to be getting money out of people, or devoting myself to things I don’t care a straw about, but somehow, I’ve not been able to begin.” “You are quite fortunate, it is quite a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#money #motivation #occupations #attitude

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #call #cup #dear #desire

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history