#lever

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#courage #democrat #establish #leadership #legitimate

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#cleverness #content #day #display #exists

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #discern #discover #fool #man

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#anything is possible #burden #clever #enough #feeling

He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage." "Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!" "Her freedom!" "I think her much at liberty. ↗

— Helen Halstead

#experience

Noses run. Feet smell. ↗

— Teresa Monachino

#funny #teresa-monahcino #wordplay #words-fail-me #funny

It struck Sophie that Comic-Con was something like a modern-day Brigadoon, a thriving city of a hundred and fifty thousand people that sprang up here in San Diego for less than a week every summer. People flocked to it from across the nation and around the world to populate it for its all-too-short existence, played their chosen roles, then dispersed back to their real homes as soon as the city disappeared. And the next summer, they'd do it all over again, forming a living history of their own in annual installments. ↗

— Matt Forbeck

#leverage #matt-forbeck #san-diego #sdcc #home

This is my logo for Amy ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#amy-s-logo #art #clever-logo #clever-logos #design

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cactus #child #children #clever #desert

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #clever #cognition #cognitive #cognitive-psychology