#fit

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era. ↗

— Bob Iger

#billie holiday #ella #ella fitzgerald #era #fitzgerald

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#attorney general #doubts #failure #fitness #general

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable. ↗

— Terry Semel

#being #embarrassed #nothing #profitable

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#always #best #catch #fit #friends

Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#fitness #good #i #i think #overall

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#brutally #designed #fits #harmony #institution

In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#analyse #carbon #carbon dioxide #computer #constants

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#benefit #direct #history #human #human needs

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sacrifice #this-side-of-paradise #freedom

With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#bigger #budgets #cable #characters #drama