#it

I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don’t know on the other hand that I would: I don’t know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don’t know that I mayn’t be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#sex #uncertainty #death

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. ↗

— Bob Filner

#beijing #chinese #chinese government #coming #cross

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county. ↗

— Bob Filner

#county #health #health care #health care system #integrated

As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#say #walter #way #would

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#far #literally #move #reason #skirts

I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#even #i #i can #jumping #kitchen

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt. ↗

— David Fincher

#brad #brad pitt #could #i #if i could

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#around #because #book #case #could

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#anyone #credibility #hard #know #media