#erin

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. ↗

— Judah Philip Benjamin

#effort #fire #gardener #human #human effort

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#comedy #dangerous #entering #land #start

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. ↗

— Jules Renard

#cold #head #idea #less #suffering

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering. ↗

— Mike Ross

#bring #common-sense #confront #constant #craft

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#engineering #even #farm #farmer #flow

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#american #american movies #i #i think #kid

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#capacity #command #focus #giant #idea

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#soul #stop #suffering #teaches #unless

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#going #hanged #i #much #persons