#lent

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#before #christmas #clock #closing #day

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

#boot #crack #damage #does #equivalent

I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care. ↗

— Vincent Frank

#candidate #care #consider #excellent #i

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. ↗

— Anna Freud

#children #elsewhere #emotions #engaged #feel

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#downside #environment #fertilizer #golf #great

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#fat #going #life #out #quest

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on. ↗

— Anna Friel

#back #be happy #could #doing #education

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. ↗

— Jose Marti

#gift #making #obligation #our #ourselves

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#down #fall #going #just #like

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #friends #here #i #keep