#cut

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past. ↗

— Peter Welch

#also #american #american family #average #average american

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#heart-renching #love #life

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did. ↗

— Randy West

#classes #cutting #day #did #fascination

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. ↗

— Rebecca West

#bear #best #cutting #dark #dark places

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#i #independent #movie #producers #root

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old. ↗

— Jack White

#away #bits #blew #circle #crowd

You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference. ↗

— Kelli White

#big #big difference #could #cut #difference

There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half. ↗

— Shaun White

#being #crowd #cuts #go #hair

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#bracket #capital #capital gains #child #create