#ld

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#city #depend #god #holding #holding on

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it. ↗

— Holly Near

#believe #day #first #handed #i

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count. ↗

— Holly Near

#able #attitudes #changed #completely #count

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die. ↗

— Crystal Waters

#die #go #got #i #money

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#come #happened #never #old #pass

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan. ↗

— Andrew Niccol

#arms #biggest #bipartisan #bush #bush administration

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ↗

— Anais Nin

#contact #each #human #human being #precious

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. ↗

— Citium Zeno

#chain #endless #fate #formula #goes