#dole

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#disappear #enough #ignore #long #only

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack #barack obama #bob #buffet #cranky

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#contentment #indolence #refined #simply

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#adolescence #birth #born #completely #higher

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. ↗

— Granville Stanley Hall

#individual #past #race #savage #stage

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#adulthood #childhood #children #effects #follow

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. ↗

— Martha Beck

#childhood #laughter #sex

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#bob #clinton #compare #comparing #criminal

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#brute #destroyed #effectually #i #indolence