#join

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#as far as #concerned #country #dignity #far

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#i #joined #kid #pool #put

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star. ↗

— Tom Baker

#doctor #i #important #joined #know

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it. ↗

— Lance Bass

#actually #always #felt #friends #get

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#bit #country #daily #daily work #doing

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#adjoining #down #everybody #hold #knows

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#applies #does #existence #go #hidden

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#against #consciousness #earliest #entirety #every

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#began #between #cattle #chicken #collaboration

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it. ↗

— Cilla Black

#enjoy #i #joint #once #smoke