#dr

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#fdr #monopoly #new-deal #roosevelt #business

To be a people's pleaser is a dangerous game and to be truthful makes you unpopular, which one are you gonna choose? ↗

— Euginia Herlihy

#dreams

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#men

I think love is sort of a con you play on yourself. I think the whole conception of love is something the previous generation invents to justify having created you. You know I think the real reason children are born is because parents are so bored they have children to amuse themselves. They're so bored they don't have anything else to do so they have a child because that will keep them busy for a while. Then to justify to the kid the reason he exists they tell him there's such a thing as love and that's where you come from because me and your daddy or me and your mommy were in love and that's why you exist. When actually it was because they were bored out of their minds. ↗

— Richard Hell

#love #opinions #business

Drea, believe and follow your heart, Remember that the choices you made will lead you to your destiny. ↗

— Josie Zapanta Stewart

#destiny #dreams #inspirational #dreams

You know, you can go shopping if you want, Skye," he said finally looking down at me. "I told you that you could spend what you wanted. You don't have a limit on the card and I have more than enough money. ↗

— J.L. McCoy

#dreams

People who are not fully enlightened have no business becoming parents. This contradicts the conventionally accepted notion that people have an inherent "right" to have children. They do not. People who have a compulsion to traumatize a child, even in the mildest forms, are breaking the child's human rights, though of course the parental compulsion to find false pleasure through procreation obliterates their awareness of these rights. But interestingly, many parents would agree that convicted pedophiles and child murderers have no right to procreate, because of the dynamics in which they are so likely to engage. ↗

— Daniel Mackler

#parenthood #parenting #parenting-children #business

Today is not yesterday. And tomorrow is nothing more than an idyllic day dream. ↗

— Rhonda Laurel

#dreams

She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles." Wizards don't giggle," I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #karrin-murphy #change

Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your life alone." "Don't change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay." Apparently I was supposed to sniff people to determine their competence. "How do you know?" He shrugged. "You just have to trust her. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#derek #kate #change