#ff

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one... ↗

— Cathryn Kemp

#addiction #addicts #brave #courage #difficult-life

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

#except #french #out #seek

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#difficult times #escaped #i #life #most

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice. ↗

— David Petraeus

#best #clearly #down #expressed #i

File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff. ↗

— Guy Picciotto

#hear #our #people #radio #sharing

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. ↗

— Richard Pound

#accidental #active #cheating #complex #complicity

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#am #any #automatically #difficulty #face

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency. ↗

— Lewis Thompson Preston

#economic #efficiency #judged #justice #loans

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#any #anything #effect #long #say

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#between #chance #difference #god #operations