#ding

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible. ↗

— Jane Swisshelm

#dying #impossible #yielding

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#awful #basketball #beautiful #became #country

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. ↗

— Karl Rove

#attacks #conservatives #indictments #liberals #offer

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives. ↗

— Karl Rove

#boost #consequences #debt #economic #federal

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Karl Rove

#court #empathy #justice #liberal #mr

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#bride #does #getting #her #marriage

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#her #man #point #stops #wedding

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#either #exceeding #getting #heart #limit

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works. ↗

— John Rowland

#else #everything #grade #reading #then

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits