#lease

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth. ↗

— Stuart Wilde

#emotional #experience #get #having #invest

...killing rats wasn’t in my job description. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #quiet-please #description

We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #library-books #quiet-please #librarians

Please all, and you will please none. ↗

— Aesop

#please #will #you

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase. ↗

— Richard Burr

#am #assistance #benefit #bush #bush administration

I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout. ↗

— Colin Cooper

#council #estate #football #great #had

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. ↗

— Claire Danes

#desperately #girl #good #good girl #growing

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#closer #comments #default #dominated #get

Due to state laws, the restaurant was nonsmoking, which as a nonsmoker pleases me, but as a Libertarian it pisses me off.
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— Jarod Kintz

#big-brother #choice #freedom #law #laws