#grave

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#because #bonds #corporation #cynically #engraved

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#fading #fame #grave #little #name

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. ↗

— Gary Larson

#considered #graveyards #i #music #musicians

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see. ↗

— Jude Law

#back #because #been #drive #early

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#angola #beds #been #contents #deciding

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#democracy #grave #i #press #take

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#dealing #direct #every #grave #grave danger

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#continuous #cry #emergency #fear #fervor

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative. ↗

— Ice T

#anyone #considered #done #everybody #go

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#defect #dull #grave #perfection