#made

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#choices #come #decades #define #history

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#been #change #country #dictatorships #difficult

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#extraordinary #feet #first #ground #i

It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#appetite #been #big #economy #events

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#funny #i #made #most #stupid

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#all things #anything #basically #hardly #head

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#barriers #being #between #dictator #ever

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? ↗

— Jacques Plante

#boo #goes #how #job #light

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ↗

— Emily Post

#added #built #chore #cooking #home