#ding

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #doing #doubt #hand #hesitation

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. ↗

— Richard Russo

#ago #anything #books #bought #cheap

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#deal #everyone #just #learn #limits

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#emotion #erase #forgetting #kind #lays

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#always #am #anybody #candid #control

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#am #billion #budget #cuts #cutting

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#creation #job #job creation #money #more

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch. ↗

— Johan Santana

#commanding #count #executing #fastball #get

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#absolutely not #cannot #catch #collect #commander-in-chief