#east

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. ↗

— John Updike

#east #i #i write #kansas #little

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. ↗

— John Updike

#extent #government #i #i love #least

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#arrived #degree #embraced #eminence #fame

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#feast #ticket

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty. ↗

— Juan Cole

#east #interest #interested #middle #middle east

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#favorite #steinbeck #beauty

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#before #body #born #congress #day

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#doubtful #far #fault #federalism #find

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#because #been #get #good #i

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. ↗

— John Tillotson

#highest #least #liberty #most #observed