#iced

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. ↗

— Jane Rule

#citizens #had #individuals #instead #life

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#being #billion #dollars #entitlement #even

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#country #farm #fill #fought #heart

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#everything #getting #happening #i #just

I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe. ↗

— Hank Sauer

#chewing #how #i #know #must

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes? ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#ever #eyes #hear #must #noticed

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#day #done #ever #every #every day

Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#deformed #describe #had #investigate #light

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#did #had #here #i #job