#loc

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." ↗

— John Searle

#block #common #discussions #fancy #finds

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#curious #driven #fire #friends #go

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#because #bloodstream #break #commit #commitment

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#aisle #approach #clock #figures #hour

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions. ↗

— Linda Lingle

#best #call #career #closest #concept

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#communities #crucial #economies #gulf #integral

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#even #everything #helps #hide #i

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#clock #followed #home #hour #marched

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#fastball #games #good #i #i think

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#course #geographic #income #level #life