#erin

You can't move mountains by whispering at them. ↗

— Pink

#move #them #whispering #you

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#am #beginning #being #fifty #formulated

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#better #blocks #competitors #confidence #day

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#eyes #fathering #feel #good #his

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. ↗

— Plato

#any #because #censured #doing #fear

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans? ↗

— David Plouffe

#american people #construction #continue #create #economy

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#billy #catering #had #i #indiana

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. ↗

— Simeon Poisson

#good #life #mathematics #only #teaching

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#better #civilized #couched #die #flight