#ends

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #being #being busy #busy #does

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#brought #carried #could #difficult #difficult times

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#democratic #enterprise #even #free #free enterprise

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. ↗

— George Eliot

#fibers #friends #how #knit #love

My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#believed #best #friends #me #mom

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. ↗

— George Eliot

#delightful #friendships #liking #more #most

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ↗

— George Eliot

#friends #wear #wrinkles

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#attended #been #celebrating #deeply #diamond

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. ↗

— Thucydides

#doing #favors #friends #our #secure

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#class #depends #digging #economy #george