#ge

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#compared #football #pitch #stage #tough

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#capitalism #garden #getting #plant #unemployment

I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around? ↗

— James Welch

#clothing #did #eat #get #historical

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get ↗

— Anne Lamott

#desire #get #life #want #wish

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. ↗

— Eddie Cantor

#flowers #funeral #own #smell #wedding

Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#agenda #almost #back #been #charge

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible. ↗

— Cao Cao

#battle #certain #decline #defeated #doubts

...We must also realize-students, teachers, and laymen alike-that even when we have accomplished the task that lies before us, we will not have accomplished the whole task. We must be more than a nation of functional literates. We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies. Nothing less wil satisfy the needs of the world that is coming. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#intelligence

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. ↗

— Robert Capa

#dangerous #getting #getting old #less #like

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#complete #did #ever #everything #figure