#dl

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#cities #convinced #deal #extraordinary #face

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#beat #circle #deadly #difficult #even

Drumming is my middle name. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#middle #name

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#comes #end #end of the world #episode #every

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#badly #democracy #educated #government #means

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#deadly #educated #educated people #education #horrible

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless. ↗

— Julia Child

#banking #careers #children #except #few

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all. ↗

— Lee Child

#almost #i #june #maybe #midnight

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#cheerful #childhood #itself #kindly #lovely

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look? ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#affect #badly #british #british press #care