#lent

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#down #enough #goin #gonna #i

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#better ways #blue #blue jeans #corps #exchange

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#forever #life #make #saddest #saddest thing

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#characteristics #cheered #excellent #excellent man #grieved

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#animosity #arise #cause #familiarity #great

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#brightest #class #conversations #desk #even

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups. ↗

— Sean Parker

#diffused #drain #early #gets #investors

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#heart #knows #nothing #reason #reasons

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#gift #i #i think #like #mouth

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

#gives #god #into #talent #transforms