#dl

You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#build #china #class #come #country

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#care #courts #disputes #does #encouraging

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#certainly #control #day #did #extra

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#end #equal #game #hardly #pawn

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin. ↗

— Barbara Steele

#energies #film #i #i think #itself

When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#around #baby #change #cuddly #drag

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. ↗

— Stendhal

#less #more #pleases #profoundly

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#idle #personal #personal identity #requires #sense

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#estate #great #grown #i #i am

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. ↗