#iving

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. ↗

— Tony Snow

#again #america #day #defining #deserves

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits. ↗

— Tony Snow

#baby #baby boomers #benefits #boomers #by the time

If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well. ↗

— Lisa Snowdon

#check #going #going away #good #i

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick. ↗

— James Franco

#almost #base #being #clients #delivering

I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#anything #arrest #cops #doing #driving

It is not living that matters, but living rightly. ↗

— Socrates

#matters #rightly

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#civilisation #effect #escape #hardly #ignorance

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#condensed #experience #generation #his way #incontrovertible

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#dead #dog #lion #living #many

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#literature #living #memory #nation