#los

The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#closing #command #could #desperately #him

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy. ↗

— Hollis Stacy

#combination #definitely #downturn #due #economy

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#become #cannot #close #exercise #governments

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#company #data #even #get #instead

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#begins #cause #confidence #creates #downward

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#availability #closely #economic #economic prosperity #energy

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone. ↗

— Edith Stein

#been #dear #everyone #god #join

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#all day #common #common sense #day #everybody

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #dreaming #excitement #form #imagination

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#attack #endangered #lose #obliged #otherwise