#leg

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #better #better place #beyond #election

I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again. Find one lost sheep. The angels rejoice. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#college #cynicism #dating #faith #glass-girl

I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#courage #everything #had #heels #i

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. ↗

— Diana Vreeland

#elegance #got #mind #only #real

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time. ↗

— George Voinovich

#legacy #liberating #path #peace #prosperity

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. ↗

— Voltaire

#ice-cream #illegal #pity

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ↗

— Voltaire

#others #privilege #think #too #yourselves

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#circumstances #civilians #illegal #indiscriminate #ought

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#majority #muslims #overwhelming #overwhelming majority #radicals