#heir

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. ↗

— Tom Allen

#beyond #budget #care #children #cuts

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#conceals #democracy #desolation #destruction #eruption

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. ↗

— Tori Amos

#by the time #considered #hit #industry #phenomenal

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. ↗

— Roald Amundsen

#always #first #gratitude #ice #increased

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops. ↗

— Jon Anderson

#beatles #been #chops #happy #how

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#artists #attracted #capabilities #i #i think

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#because #hard #issue #mindset #quit

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#am #bear #cattle #eat #envy

The players must be at the centre of their industry. ↗

— Rob Andrew

#industry #must #players #their

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#between #dark #fear #happen #hard