#del

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#bad news #being #close #delivering #fail

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#behind #chance #change #current #deliver

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#away #fade #guidelines #infancy #intelligence

And to this day, my Mom is my role model. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#model #mom #role #role model

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry. ↗

— Sonia Rykiel

#models #out #runway #send #useless

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#being #complain #delicious #delicious food #food

We need role models who are going to break the mold. ↗

— Carly Simon

#going #models #mold #need #role

Delay is the enemy of progress. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#enemy #progress

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more. ↗