#iona

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult. ↗

— Robin Yount

#difficult #family #know #lifestyle #professional

‎"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?" "It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. ↗

— Trina Paulus

#thought-provoking #beauty

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#am #american #became #because #birth

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#also #barrier #barriers #berlin #berlin wall

It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#against #become #during #economic #economy

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#being #definitely #difficult #dyslexia #fully

We're getting job creation in healthcare and educational services. We've been getting that all along. It's demographically driven, it's funded by the government, and that's held up. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#been #creation #driven #educational #funded

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#design #emotional #exact #eyebrows #give

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#expertise #folks #getting #hand #like

All reactionaries are paper tigers. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#reactionaries #tigers