#east

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#be happy #decent #earn #education #effort

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#day #efforts #happens #history #hope

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#common #determining #each #earth #east

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#everybody #everybody else #few #had #i

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.' ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#breast cancer #cancer #chance #get #going

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#bit #breast cancer #cancer #daily #door

My mother has battled breast cancer three times. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#cancer #mother #three #times

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#least #many #presidency #problems #them

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#diameter #directors #hereby #inches #least