#lis

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#believe #career #example #great #helps

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#both #during #elections #establishment #i

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#always #another #anything #damned #foolish

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#come #downstairs #gutter #idealists #into

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#agenda #attack #business #coordinated #democrats

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#grew #i #i think #joni #joni mitchell

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#am #before #childhood #dark #different

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #cannot #corruption #established

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#constitutions #establishment #justice #laws #liberty

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#both #conditions #development #men #metropolis