#early

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#all-time #budget #budgets #defense #federal

Nearly 30,000 fans turned out to support the tribute match and provide one of the best atmospheres at the ground for ages. I was so happy to be part of it. ↗

— David Ginola

#atmospheres #best #fans #ground #happy

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#far #far less #how #less #odd

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#clearly #communicate #control #master #means

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#around #assumed #cut #dying #early

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#blues #country #early #every #few

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here. ↗

— Perry Christie

#almost #coming #day #ended #here

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment. ↗

— Chris Christie

#care #career #course #entire #entire career

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. ↗

— Juan Cole

#arrest #decision #early #his #how

I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late. ↗

— Tom Courtenay

#finished #i #know #late #never