#dec

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#decline #europe #france #i #myself

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#been #come #deathbed #decision #had

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#decline #fault #may #their #unions

Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#decisions #eat #food #going #i

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#happiness #indecision #journey #regret #beauty

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#cannot #decades #disputed #interested #jewish

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#book #decided #doing #environmental #find

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#clouded #compelling #decade #despite #even

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#car #decision #disease #error #front

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita-blake #fiction #hunter #jean-claude #paranormal