#ding

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud. ↗

— John Barrow

#away #back #bringing #crest #down

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda. ↗

— Phyllis Battelle

#bride #carried #fifth #her #scotch

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#america #american #american interests #amount #antithetical

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#american #american people #believe #i #i believe

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#late #later #makes #manpower #project

They drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around; I drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around. ↗

— Larry Brown

#beer #drink #i #lotta #riding

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it. ↗

— James E. Casey

#basic #basic principle #believe #building #business

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself. ↗

— James E. Casey

#building #degree #measure #others #success

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. ↗

— Barbara Stanwyck

#different way #fallen #female #finding #fortieth

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #humiliating #law #mainly #means