#ma

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#christmas #claus #empty #fireplace #going

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. ↗

— Carol Shields

#human #i #i think #language #less

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. ↗

— Mark Shields

#agreements #broke #completely #consequence #eastern

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#agenda #challenges #compared #forward #gilded

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind. ↗

— Murasaki Shikibu

#body #may #moves #soul #stay

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#drop #handing #hope #i #i can

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks." ↗

— Florence Scovel Shinn

#clicks #conviction #done #failure #impress

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. ↗

— Florence Scovel Shinn

#his #loves #man #success #unless

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#brink #collapse #country #credit #economic

Life was small but good. (15) ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#life #simplicity #small #life