#elves

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#filed #get #life #life is a #manila

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so. ↗

— Billy Joel

#find #irs #least #legitimate #musicians

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#always #done #especially #federal #federal level

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#better #could #critical #done #exception

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#center #change #characters #conflicts #defining

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#alone #anyway #because #being #being alone

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#cary #cary grant #case #check #crazy

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ↗

— Carl Jung

#everything #irritates #lead #others #ourselves

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it. ↗

— Terry Jones

#every #history #make #our #ourselves