#line

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#bring #bureaucracy #cut #exaggerated #federal

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#intersection #life-lines #love #marriage #married-life

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#believe #draw #get #hacks #honesty

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. ↗

— Robert Carlyle

#between #empty #empty space #get #greatest

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#breadth #depth #height #linear #narrative

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#definite #had #ideas #lacking #many

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#artist #been #best #best friend #both

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#better life #democrats #designed #equalizer #families

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line. ↗

— Stockard Channing

#ages #deal #down #fortunate #good

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them. ↗

— Vince Cable

#always #because #bit #conference #ever