#iona

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#end #germany #go #ii #months

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#life-and-living #art

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#alone #always #attention #christmas #christmas time

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure. ↗

— William Vickrey

#effect #enter #exert #high #inflationary

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. ↗

— Ed Case

#amendment #constitutional #constitutional amendment #gay #gay marriage

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. ↗

— H. Beam Piper

#education #educational-system #faces #education

It makes no sense to compare yourself with others because there will always be better & worse people than you out there. Each person has his own path to make. You are where you are now. Could you reach for the stars & have everything you want? realistically no. You may not win Olympic Gold in London 2012 , or be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company etc but you most definitely have the capacity to make YOUR life as the Masterpiece it could really be. The choice is yours... ↗

— Pablo

#inspirational

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#better #except #felt #heart #i

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#china #co-operation #come #continue #exploration

Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#motivational #education