#iona

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#below #congress #faith #leadership #lost

I've learned so much during my time with cancer. It's taught me a lot about who I am. It revealed to me my true goals and priorities. It introduced me to a brand new world where time isn't wasted, and important things aren't left unsaid. All the while, the superfluities of life are ignored and forgotten. Because I now understand how a person should act, whether confronted by death or not. And it's a shame that's what it takes to scare someone into becoming a conducive, meritable human being. ↗

— Kevin Lankes

#cancer-survivors #inspirational-quotes #young-adult-cancer-survivors #death

There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional. ↗

— Jorja Fox

#many #personal #professional #some #things

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#life-lessons #past #inspirational

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#because #craziest #dysfunctional #ever #fair

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#moon #more #office #party #person

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. ↗

— Anatole France

#defining #him #makes #man #out

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#animal #because #eat #fur #good

The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles. ↗

— Barney Frank

#eat #fact #give #group #incline

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. ↗

— Barney Frank

#based #broader #compensation #country #decisions