#iona

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#cold #convenience #emotional #house #piece

Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules. ↗

— Kit Bond

#adopt #banking #begun #clinton #clinton administration

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it. ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#inspirational

Society is a machine of machines, a system that runs on precondition, customs, rules and laws that are either expressed openly or maintained in the closet, one, like the one in the United States that is constantly changing to accommodate some variations of the machinated selves and its affections as in race, gender, sexual orientations etc which are also mostly preconditions of the machine. Again, I ask. Who are you? ↗

— Dew Platt

#inspirational #change

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#dignity #freedom #heard #hope #i

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway. ↗

— Alessandra Ambrosio

#great #look #make #people #perfect

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#always #betrayal #espionage #finding #give

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#could #espionage #existence #get #intelligence

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#leads #our #poetry #rational #refreshed

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #effort #espionage #had #human