#lose

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#common #common sense #create #lose #problem

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point. ↗

— Al Gore

#change #closer #critical #critical mass #day

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #closest #critical #i #judgments

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap. ↗

— Bob Graham

#almost #been #below #close #comes

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it. ↗

— David Duchovny

#close #close relationship #deal #does #else

You know, my brother won't walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn't want to be linked to me as my new 'mystery man.' Same with my close guy friends. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#because #brother #close #friends #guy

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good. ↗

— Bob Greene

#amid #bitter #chance #closely #comfort

I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#i #i think #interesting #interesting thing #keep

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God. ↗

— Andy Griffith

#baptized #christian #christian life #closer #even

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#fails #fulfill #government #legitimacy #loses