#lan

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#american #american empire #being #biggest #empire

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#lot #market #money #national #our

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#companies #file #forced #imbalance #important

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#dog #guinea #guinea pig #hairy #horses

And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#around #buses #completely #correct #damage

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to marry her. Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I've ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagery #love #marriage #melancholy #moon

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#foot #foreign #foreign land #land #last

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#age #book #entirely #epics #found

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#cannot #expect #freedom #land #much

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#expression #eye #genius #language #natural