#era

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#chill #environment #feet #ground #heart

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#conduct #government #government programs #harder #help

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#american businesses #any #businesses #country #federal

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#instrument #isolated #melancholy #miserable #such

Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#done #generally #happens #i #me

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females. ↗

— Susan Blackmore

#attractive #clever #females #generally #go

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. ↗

— William Blackstone

#community #even #general #general good #good

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run. ↗

— Howard Dean

#desperately #does #gingrich #hope #i

I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby,' so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented. ↗

— Elizabeth Debicki

#cast #experienced #front #i #information

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#also #i #i remember #kid #mother