#era

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#banned #been #camera #caught #i

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#center #did #feel #flown #general

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#average #discuss #events #great minds #ideas

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#definite #ever #everyone #generalities #go

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#begins #certain #certain point #competition #cooperation

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#air #america #attacked #date #december

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#class #class consciousness #consciousness #destinies #general

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#country #every #governments #i #i believe

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#brief #brief moment #change #comes #embodiment

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#done #enter #envy #greatest #harm