#ding

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two. ↗

— Maria Monk

#crossed #dipped #door #fingers #holy

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play. ↗

— Eugene Ormandy

#center #how #i #just #last

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ↗

— George Orwell

#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#bush #bush tax cuts #cut #cuts #debt

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#battles #consists #fighting #happiness #itself

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ends #engineering #physical #piecemeal #province

The TV ads have been coming hot and heavy in Ohio. I think the Obama campaign has outspent the Romney campaign by two-to-one or three-to-one, depending on the analysis you look at. People are tired of the attacks already, and here we are in July. ↗

— Rob Portman

#already #analysis #attacks #been #campaign

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#book #constant #doing #i #movies

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies. ↗

— Janet Reno

#building #carry #disabilities #forward #international

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. ↗

— Mark Twain

#criticism #jerk #reading #writing #want