#isa

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

#disappointed #found #gave #got #human

You know, Lisa, for the longest time, did not sing. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#know #lisa #longest #longest time #sing

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters. ↗

— David E. Price

#against #attacks #avoid #between #colleagues

I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups. ↗

— Laisenia Qarase

#accountable #affairs #always #commercial #communities

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #businessmen #century #consistently #disastrous

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dangerous #disarmed #force #government #holds

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#acting #actually #also #completely #different

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#dream #had #i #never #still

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#alert #banish #cats #complaisance #discriminating

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests. ↗

— Susan Rice

#elimination #eventual #interests #itself #manifestly