#every

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#dwelling #every #freeze #get #great

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#blending #brings #cycle #every #new

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#any #choose #circumstances #everything #freedoms

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#cannot #carry #concrete #demands #everyone

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#better man #every #find #man #neighbors

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#every #get #grab #i #look

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#doing #everything #may #opinion #suspected

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#everything #fine #laughs #say #she